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Sunday 31 August 2014

Nonsense Not Science – H:MC21

The sheer arrogance of our species in naming itself Homo sapiens (and sometimes the even more ludicrous Homo sapiens sapiens) never fails to annoy me. For a start, we’re not that wise as a species. If we were, we wouldn’t be killing each other in the name of invisible sky fairies that usually turn out to have the same historical folk origins as the other side’s. Reality-based bloggers, broadcasters, scientists, medics, pharmacists etc wouldn’t spend so much time having to explain to hairless, faeces-throwing chimps in the media and on Internet that yes, global warming is real and already under way, or that you cannot have continual economic expansion within a limited market. Nor would we have to continually expose and debunk the deep-rooted fuckwittery that is homeopathy.

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