Intelligent People more likely to be godless liberalsFollow

Right, just like the Jewish. Everyone knows they're largely unsuccessful, stupid, mostly conservative, and nearly extinct.

Edited, Mar 2nd 2010 5:38am by Atomicflea

It's because he's an engineer. And he really needs for his job to give him some kind of intellectual validation. Because it's the only thing he's got.

Finance is kind of like science.



Seems silly to single out that as an example, when we by and large we spend our research dollars on things like nanoengineering, regenerative technologies, metamaterial science, Superconductancebiofuel, quantum dynamics and the like.

"In the real world, there are orders of magnitude more equally smart people in most fields who work by applying their knowledge to actually build things that people will pay for (I even used this definition earlier). Useful things. Not things that happen to meet the on paper requirements set up in a grant."

To get funded, generally your requirements are to find something no one knows yet.

"That's why the people in my field produce things like better cell phones and make a profit doing it,"

Incremental improvements? Ya, there is incremental science, too. You'll never get funded for that.

Also, gbaji has been pretty clear about what he does for a living. It is in no way what he describes here.

"and the people in your field spend millions of dollars of taxpayer money to produce things like research showing that men like sex. "

So this is a complete delusion. Let me put it in simple terms: there are many, many people competing for very small amounts of grant money. Particularly in the social sciences, where very little money is invested.

Lastly, I find it ironic that gbaji is suggesting we take a poll for a policy. Worldwide, universal health care has overwhelming support. Worldwide, US conservatives are a fringe movement - far more conservative then the conservatives other vote for. Now of course we know gbaji doesn't travel much so perhaps he can get away with thinking all the "people...who work by applying their knowledge" mostly reside in the USA. Reality, of course, suggests the opposite.

I'm torn, because on one hand, when I had pet ducks in 3rd grade I learned quickly how much more ducks like running/falling water than standing water. However, I don't blame the folks for wanting to get paid to play with ducks. Ducks are awesome.

You're just saying that because of Brown Duck.

That's not ****, that's guano.

We don't need your recognition, we know we're better.

Ok. But how does one derive this from your description of God? I wasn't taking issue with your two positions, only with your statement that one lead to the other.

Er? I didn't mention the "Christian God". You did. I spoke much more broadly about the "existence of the divine". Don't press your own assumptions on me... ;)

To be fair tho, their current leadership in Israel is about as Conservative as you can get, and if they carry on being as stupid as they are atm, extinction is becoming a possibility.

And yet, every single year we are treated to examples of the kinds of silly things that do get funded. It's not a delusion when it happens, is it?

There's also some reasonable evidence that not only does publicly funded research not produce much in economic terms, but my actually produce negative effects by "crowding out" potentially more fruitful research by private industries in the same areas.

Nice cherry picking there.