"Far too many of those in power today are basing critical decisions that affect our lives and the lives of future generations not on rigorous science or even the most basic of facts - but on ideology, political opportunism and, most disturbing of all, willful misinformation."

Kevin Knobloch, President, Union of Concerned Scientists

As long as he gets away with it he will continue to do whatever he wants. Jail time might stop him.

"Eighty international scientific societies have endorsed the concept of a primarily human-caused climate crisis that is already starting to threaten the health and well-being of millions, and soon to be billions, of people in the next few decades. The total number of scientific organizations that dispute this is zero. If you were watching a basketball game where the score was 80 to 0, with one minute left in the fourth quarter, and you decided to bet your entire nest egg on that losing team, no one would argue that you were not severely delusional. ... Inability to discern reality is the hallmark of schizophrenia."

Dr Brian Moench

"The message I have for climate deniers is this: you are endangering humankind. It is time for climate deniers to face reality, because the body of evidence is overwhelming and the world's leading scientists agree. Wishing that climate change will go away by clinging to a tiny minority view is not a policy, it is a fantasy. Problems do not go away by pretending they do not exist."

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)

"Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their
behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. "

Abraham Lincoln

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

Joseph Goebbels

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"If you're very, very stupid, how can you possibly realize that you're very, very stupid? You'd have to be relatively intelligent to realize how stupid you really are. This explains almost the entirety of Fox News." (and the gop) "

John Cleese

"The anti-abortion movement's end goal is to let doctors refuse treatment - including life-saving emergency care - for patients whom they deem to be sinful and morally impure. The patients, largely women, are supposed to die for their sins."

Rebecca Solnit

Each has advantages, just pick one time and stick with it. Don't keep changing back and forth.

"Why waste time learning when ignorance is instantaneous?"

Hobbs

"Anti-abortion leaders know that abortion bans kill women. They don't care. Or worse, many view dying from pregnancy as a good thing. In some cases, it's viewed as just punishment for "sinful" behavior. Other times, it's romanticized as a noble sacrifice on the altar of maternal duty ... . Abortion bans make crystal clear that, to the Christian right, no woman's life is worth saving. Anyone can be sacrificed, to protect their cruel patriarchal order. "

Amanda Marcotte

So they're still going to die.
#3 | Posted by Zed

Darwin at work.

The decision should be between the patient, parents of a minor, and their doctor. No idiot politician with a GED needs to get involved.

"Germs are not a real thing. I can't see them. Therefore, they're not real."

Fox News host Pete Hegseth

"Germs are not a real thing. I can't see them. Therefore, they're not real."

Fox News host Pete Hegseth

"Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as the truth' exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as Science' ... If the Leader says of such and such an event, It never happened'-well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five-well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs."

George Orwell

"That women will be injured and killed by unsafe outlaw abortions and by forced pregnancies is not a great concern of the birth forcers - those wayward women should have known better than to get pregnant out of wedlock in the first place, and if raped oh well, the growing soul inside them takes priority to its reproductive vessel who needs to understand their Godly prolife duty. If a woman who would have gotten a legal termination if she could because it is safer than not having one happens to die from what seemed like a normal pregnancy oh well that's too bad, it's God's Will anyhow, and if she was right with Christ she is in a better place so what is the big problem. The wastage of pregnant women is well worth the glorious aims of the prolifers."

Gregory S. Paul

"Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as the truth' exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as Science' ... If the Leader says of such and such an event, It never happened'-well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five-well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs."

George Orwell

"The anti-abortion project is the core engine of a brazen attempt by one religious clique that constitutes about a third of the population to impose their hardline faith-based beliefs on everyone else. Outside of the religious right who opposes abortion rights? Nontheists against women's full reproductive rights are as scarce as hen's teeth."

Gregory S. Paul

"We are free to believe in nonsense. We are free to act on nonsense. We are free to stand aside and let our fellow citizens who believe in nonsense take up the task of self-government that we are too busy, or too lazy, or too distracted to take up ourselves. What we cannot do is walk away from the consequences of believing nonsense."

Charles P. Pierce, Idiot America

"When it comes to climate change, some of the wealthiest people in the world have weighed the fate of the Earth and every living thing on it for untold generations to come, the seasons and the harvests, this whole exquisite planet we evolved on, and they have come down on the side of more profit for themselves, the least needy people the world has ever seen."

Rebecca Solnit

#4 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-11-08 10:08 PM | Reply
These are what are called facts.

"When people don't like facts, they ignore them."
Michael Specter

This is the way he has always done business. I don't have any sympathy for anyone who doesn't demand cash up front.

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Martin Luther King Jr.