Bill Nye, the snake oil salesman who peddled the $200 ionator that promised to turned tap water into “ionized” water which would kill just about any bacteria has discovered another way to use [cough] science:
Here’s the “pro-science” message Bill is selling:
“Sexuality’s a spectrum, everyone is on it. Even you might like it if you sit up on it,”
“Drag king, drag queen just do what feels right.”
“This world of ours is so full of choice. But must I choose between only John or Joyce? Are my options only hard or moist? My vagina has its own voice.”
How edgy.
At least we can catch a glimpse of what science is going to look like as postmodernism begins to shape it.
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Whether or not the USA can be said to have passed through a civilised era in its journey from barbarism to decadence, it’s pretty clear that it is well inside that latter territory now. I offer the following in response to the video above.
Now we know how Bill Nye got to be the figurehead (Honorary Chair) for the March for Science.
https://shadowtolight.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/snake-oil-salesman-becomes-hononary-chair-of-march-for-science/
It works for both Nye and the SJWs, I guess: Nye gets lots of free publicity, and a renewal of his status as science personified, they get science personified as an SJW pushing SJW Alternative Science.
Jerry Coyne doesn’t like him:
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Seems to me we could propose a new version of the Warfare Hypothesis, now the idea that science and SJW-ism (or science and post-modernism) are incompatible, post-modern SJW-ism being apparently based on blind faith in narratives and meta-narratives which are incompatible with science and reason (except insofar as Shermer’s dictum applies, that “smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons”.)
Once again,the Gnus lose the right to be called “rational thinkers”.
TFBW,
Wow, thanks for the link!
And thanks to Michael for the link to Coyne. Never thought I’d be complimenting Coyne, but he looks almost respectable.
And that’s a big *almost.
The Friendly Atheist blog (Terry Firma, presumably with the approval of the owner, Hemant Mehta) also joins the condemnation of Bill Nye’s new show; largely just quoting Maddie Stone, it ends with a little original content:
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Mehta himself had high hopes and expectations; first:
Then:
Wow. Not damning with faint praise, that.
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Interestingly, there’s this in the middle of Firma’s post:
Jail time? This links to Firma’s Friendly Atheist post a year ago entitled “Does Bill Nye Really Want To Put Climate-Change Deniers in Jail?”; there’s a video interview of Nye and transcript. The video interview is short and edited, says Firma, it doesn’t make clear which of a range of positions Nye was actually taking, so:
No update was forthcoming, so presumably no clarification was received.
I’m indifferent to the message/subject matter. But it’s a crummy song.