Dan Rather: Now, More Than Ever, We Must Stand Up for Science

Re:Dan Rather: Now, More Than Ever, We Must Stand Up for Sci... by notdonspaulding on Monday November 14, 2016 @12:49PM (#12951673)

    > They're ignorant, sure, but it's hard to see things 
    > from another perspective if you've never really been 
    > exposed to anything else.

Are you sure they're ignorant?

Could they not be intelligent, rational individuals with the personal agency to have looked at the same facts as you and come up with different conclusions?

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Re:Dan Rather: Now, More Than Ever, We Must Stand Up for Sci... by kstrauser on Monday November 14, 2016 @12:57PM (#12951742)

Not on that subject, no. It's not reasonably possible for a person to look at the known facts of modern biology and not believe in the process of evolution.

Things intelligent, well-read people can disagree on: fiscal policy; democracy versus republic; abortion rights; single-payer healthcare.

Things so overwhelmingly shown to be factually true that it's not a sign of reasonableness to debate them: Earth and life are old; vaccines don't cause autism.

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Re:Dan Rather: Now, More Than Ever, We Must Stand Up for Sci... by Retric on Monday November 14, 2016 @12:56PM (#12951733)

> Could they not be intelligent, rational individuals with the personal agency to have looked at the same facts as you and come up with different conclusions?

No. Just as someone that says 2 + 2 = 457 is also wrong.

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