Science!

[Magicscreen2]

"...The progress towards completely eradicating polio shows in the numbers. Last year, 74 cases of wild poliovirus were reported, exclusively in Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to the initiative. In 2016, 10 cases have been reported so far — also in those two countries. By comparison, when the initiative started its work in 1988, "more than 350,000 children were paralyzed every year." http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...-out-in-massive-synchronized-worldwide-switch

You go, Science.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

I had thought that polio was extinct.
Was watching PBS, and was shocked to see that polio is still active.
At least, some are giving the problem serious attention.

 

[Sanjeet]

My friend babu caught polio and nearly died if it not for his thirst for rape.



Sanjeet

 

[BoyNextDoor]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/f3/e8/43/f3e8432864640dcfc1488d8c4c53ccad.jpg

 

[Magicscreen2]

I had thought that polio was extinct.
Was watching PBS, and was shocked to see that polio is still active.
At least, some are giving the problem serious attention.

Yes, certainly in this country and most of the developed world, it was. War in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and actually intentional targeting of WHO-sponsored vaccination work allowed its reemergence. Here's a short article from the Economist that tells the tale.

 

[Magicscreen2]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/f3/e8/43/f3e8432864640dcfc1488d8c4c53ccad.jpg

Exactly. I loved that movie.

 

[Hypoxia]

Science flies to the moon.

Religion flies into buildings.

Science works, bitches.

 

[Saint Peter]

Science flies to the moon.

Religion flies into buildings.

Science works, bitches.

Truth!

 

[Tigersman]

Taliban

The Taliban in Afghanistan is responsible for polio still existing. They put out propaganda that the CIA was trying to infect everyone with a virus that would kill. One Afghan father believed this BS and did not have his son inoculated. The son later was stricken with polio. The father blames himself for believing the Taliban and is now anti-Taliban.

 

[Rachel_X]

The Taliban in Afghanistan is responsible for polio still existing. They put out propaganda that the CIA was trying to infect everyone with a virus that would kill. One Afghan father believed this BS and did not have his son inoculated. The son later was stricken with polio. The father blames himself for believing the Taliban and is now anti-Taliban.

At least he learned from his mistakes.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Science flies to the moon.

Religion flies into buildings.

Science works, bitches.

I think the crew of Apollo 13 prayed...

 

[Rachel_X]

I think the crew of Apollo 13 prayed...

And yet science was what brought them home.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It was the Christian enlightenment that turned man from superstition to Science, some even died in the process...



Ironically, as we turn away from faith and towards moral relativism, we seem to be returning to superstition.

Just as the early Christian Scientists were bold enough to suggest that man was not the center of the universe, current political sciences seems hell-bent up on returning him to the center of the universe. Now, science did get men off the planet, but that science was sustained by faith. Just because faith has gone out of vogue in certain circles, does not mean that it is no longer pertinent to the human condition.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It occurs to me that one could switch this up...



It was science that brought us to flight. It was science that brought about the skyscraper. It was Science that led al Qaeda to the understanding that planes would make excellent bombs capable of bringing down the towers.

Religion was a motivating factor, but it was not the delivery vehicle.



Similarly, while Science was the delivery vehicle to the moon, the astronauts and developers tended to be people of faith.

 

[doctor_insanus]

I'll just leave this here.

 

[imalickin]

Politics isn't science, it's a religion called bigmouthism and lyingtoyouism.

 

[coldblooded]

It occurs to me that one could switch this up...



It was science that brought us to flight. It was science that brought about the skyscraper. It was Science that led al Qaeda to the understanding that planes would make excellent bombs capable of bringing down the towers.

Religion was a motivating factor, but it was not the delivery vehicle.



Similarly, while Science was the delivery vehicle to the moon, the astronauts and developers tended to be people of faith.

Science is neither good nor bad just the exploration of what is and isn't and why it happens to be like that. A lot of things get hijacked and twisted around. Things have a duality to them, ying/yang. The science is pure, it's those trying to control shit that fuck it all up....

 

[Sean]

The Taliban in Afghanistan is responsible for polio still existing. They put out propaganda that the CIA was trying to infect everyone with a virus that would kill. One Afghan father believed this BS and did not have his son inoculated. The son later was stricken with polio. The father blames himself for believing the Taliban and is now anti-Taliban.

Just like those arsehole anti-vaxxers in the west, you mean?

 

[Super-Surprise]

https://s.yimg.com/dh/ap/default/160418/VPgRVPK_-_Imgur.gif

 

[WalksOnWater]

The problem with science is that so much of it simply isn’t.

...At its best, science is a human enterprise with a superhuman aim: the discovery of regularities in the order of nature, and the discerning of the consequences of those regularities. We’ve seen example after example of how the human element of this enterprise harms and damages its progress, through incompetence, fraud, selfishness, prejudice, or the simple combination of an honest oversight or slip with plain bad luck. These failings need not hobble the scientific enterprise broadly conceived, but only if scientists are hyper-aware of and endlessly vigilant about the errors of their colleagues . . . and of themselves. When cultural trends attempt to render science a sort of religion-less clericalism, scientists are apt to forget that they are made of the same crooked timber as the rest of humanity and will necessarily imperil the work that they do. The greatest friends of the Cult of Science are the worst enemies of science’s actual practice.

Scientific Regress
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/05/scientific-regress

Philosophy and Christianity are beyond his [the gnostic's] experience. Science, besides being an instrument for power over nature, is something that makes you sophisticated enough not to believe in God.

Eric Voegelin, The New Science of Politics

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[SgtSpiderMan]

Science flies to the moon.

Religion flies into buildings.

Science works, bitches.

Time flies like an arrow.

 

[Hypoxia]

Time flies like an arrow.

Fruit flies like rotten bananas.

 

[Magicscreen2]

Science flies to the moon.

Religion flies into buildings.

Science works, bitches.

I like this. Are you the author?

I'll just leave this here.

And I really like this, too.

 

[Hypoxia]

I like this. Are you the author?

Plagiarize!
Let no one else's work evade your eyes
Remember why the good lord made your eyes
And plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize
But be certain always to call it 'research'
--T. Lehrer​

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my LIT stuff

 

[Saint Peter]

Just like those arsehole anti-vaxxers in the west, you mean?

Just like.