Post by kwombles on May 23, 2009 9:32:47 GMT -5
At kwombles.blogspot.com/2009/05/farewell-to-carrey-thread-and-word-of.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-neeman/health-care-reform-and-th_b_206492.html
Ari Ne’eman's first blog on Huff; an important read!
On a side note, the Carrey thread has closed. :-( While some posters withdrew, like Crunchy and Moffie, others like Hydra and Duggie made it to the end. Duggie and NetDude appear to have waged the last of counter-campaigns against each other late last night before the game ended. Ah, if I'd known the last post I made to the thread would be my last, I'd have savored it more. I'd have made the words MATTER. You know?
Instead I'm left with these parting words to Dug: Essentially, you did. "What does this article mean? Please describe it to the layperson."
Now, I ask you, what kind of last words are these? Especially when he had time to respond back, while I snored gently in my bed: "You wrote the article!You can't describe it further? What's wrong with that?"
Now, what I did was quote from Daniel Gardner's The Science of Fear: "The limitations of animal testing, epidemiology, and other forms of evidence are why regulatory agencies have classification systems for carcinogens. The terms vary...Scientists today place much less weight on any one piece of evidence, and high-dose tests on lab animals have particularly fallen out of favor. They"re still treated as valid evidence, but they don"t carry nearly as much weight as laypeople think they do" (230).
So, needing my last words, naturally, although many compatriots pointed out it was rather obvious what the quote meant: Really, Doug? I quoted Gardner, and I could describe it further, but it's doubtful it would help at all. You've chosen to be obtuse. Whether intentionally or not, I am not sure, but you have shown a capacity to twist, bend, mangle and mutilate facts that boggles the mind. Thank you for all the opportunities you've single-handedly provided to stand counterpoint to chicanery.
In addition, I'd like to take the time to send shout-outs to Nemesis 1.0 Hydra8, Nemesis 2 Abitcrunchy, and Nemesis 4.0 Moffmars333 (oh how I've missed you, won't you come play?). And to maggiemom, not yet on the Nemesis list, but heading that way. Thank you for a month I found intellectually stimulating; you put out so much collective woo, there were days I was completely absorbed in countering it. Thank you for the opportunity you provided to band together with like-minded, scientifically-grounded individuals. Thank you for giving each of us in our merry bad of woo-fighters the firm conviction that it was absolutely necessary and completely vital that we stand counterpoint to your downright woo-quackery, misinformation and outright lies. You wore, many of you, the puffed-up moral outrage of those old-time nosy, busybody neighbor ladies who thought their antiquated view of reality was the only reality and who were mortally offended when someone dared to speak back.
A note of warning to you, the woo-quackers who would endanger our current generation and future generations of children: we will be watching, we will be waiting, and we will be ready to counter your nonsense in the future.
To my compatriots who have the courage of their convictions: Hoorah!
www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-neeman/health-care-reform-and-th_b_206492.html
Ari Ne’eman's first blog on Huff; an important read!
On a side note, the Carrey thread has closed. :-( While some posters withdrew, like Crunchy and Moffie, others like Hydra and Duggie made it to the end. Duggie and NetDude appear to have waged the last of counter-campaigns against each other late last night before the game ended. Ah, if I'd known the last post I made to the thread would be my last, I'd have savored it more. I'd have made the words MATTER. You know?
Instead I'm left with these parting words to Dug: Essentially, you did. "What does this article mean? Please describe it to the layperson."
Now, I ask you, what kind of last words are these? Especially when he had time to respond back, while I snored gently in my bed: "You wrote the article!You can't describe it further? What's wrong with that?"
Now, what I did was quote from Daniel Gardner's The Science of Fear: "The limitations of animal testing, epidemiology, and other forms of evidence are why regulatory agencies have classification systems for carcinogens. The terms vary...Scientists today place much less weight on any one piece of evidence, and high-dose tests on lab animals have particularly fallen out of favor. They"re still treated as valid evidence, but they don"t carry nearly as much weight as laypeople think they do" (230).
So, needing my last words, naturally, although many compatriots pointed out it was rather obvious what the quote meant: Really, Doug? I quoted Gardner, and I could describe it further, but it's doubtful it would help at all. You've chosen to be obtuse. Whether intentionally or not, I am not sure, but you have shown a capacity to twist, bend, mangle and mutilate facts that boggles the mind. Thank you for all the opportunities you've single-handedly provided to stand counterpoint to chicanery.
In addition, I'd like to take the time to send shout-outs to Nemesis 1.0 Hydra8, Nemesis 2 Abitcrunchy, and Nemesis 4.0 Moffmars333 (oh how I've missed you, won't you come play?). And to maggiemom, not yet on the Nemesis list, but heading that way. Thank you for a month I found intellectually stimulating; you put out so much collective woo, there were days I was completely absorbed in countering it. Thank you for the opportunity you provided to band together with like-minded, scientifically-grounded individuals. Thank you for giving each of us in our merry bad of woo-fighters the firm conviction that it was absolutely necessary and completely vital that we stand counterpoint to your downright woo-quackery, misinformation and outright lies. You wore, many of you, the puffed-up moral outrage of those old-time nosy, busybody neighbor ladies who thought their antiquated view of reality was the only reality and who were mortally offended when someone dared to speak back.
A note of warning to you, the woo-quackers who would endanger our current generation and future generations of children: we will be watching, we will be waiting, and we will be ready to counter your nonsense in the future.
To my compatriots who have the courage of their convictions: Hoorah!
