Posted on 09/11/2018 4:18:16 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
If Ug didn't solve all the differential equations for the thrown rock to hit the sabre-toothed tiger, Ug became the tiger's lunch.
And vice versa.
You guys hung on a lot longer that I did. I dropped them in the mid 1980's. The last was "Popular Science", but it finally succumbed to the PC zeitgeist.
I used to get that magazine, also Popular Science and Sports Illustrated.
I had to discontinue all three, they simply got too politically driven.
I want to read about cool gadgets, not about how we'll all die from global warming. I want to read about baseball, not how whoever the flavor of the month is "brave" or "empowered" for simply being a minority.
So, they no longer get my money. You'd think that magazines like that would be safe from political correctness, but no.
As in, "OK, we went so far towards that mountain, then we traveled so far with the mountain to our right, so what direction should we now go in order to find our camp again?", in days where stopping off and asking for directions was not an option.
When the peer review boards are filled with those who now enforce the Politically Correct views that they have enshrined as their gospel, good luck on advancing your career or trying to get any articles that disagree with the Establishment past them.
They eventually fall into the demise of the fatal "group think" as any rebels or dissenters are ejected, but real science dies even though they now enjoy almost unlimited funding & tenure.
So instead of the advancing of real science as the goal, the love of money, power & position quickly kills that once noble desire.
Occasionally, I peruse the Engineering literature they send. If you didn't know any better, you'd think that their engineering department was populated by impossibly good-looking blonde women and minority males.
When I was there, women in engineering got a free ride...books, tuition, the works. They were trying hard to recruit, even back then. My class started with about 140 students, 35 (or so) of which were women. 38 graduated in engineering, 3 of whom were women. So - guys had a 75% washout rate, and women had a 90% washout rate. Other classes ahead and behind mine were similar.
Of course, that was a long time ago, when we learned via torchlight in caves, and rode dinosaurs to school. :-) But, we earned the grades that we received. No freebies.
Thanks. I’ll see where I can post it.
Exactly! Scientific American reads like Scientific Globalist. It should celebrate American exceptionalism.
Boy, are you ever right. I am glad I grew up in a time we didn’t have the ubiquitous imaging, or the video games.
Granted, I would have loved the video games, and would have been an addict for sure.
As for the imaging, well...I don’t have a lot of pictures of me growing up, we lost 98% of them in our frequent moves from base to base, but...I can live with that.
And are the ones stupid enough to attack a mastodon with a stick with a pointy rock on the end to bring home the bacon so to speak.
Exactly.
I would still occasionally check out an article from one of those you mentioned like Sports Illustrated or Popular Science because the article looks like something I might be interested in, only to read a paragraph in, and like biting into a sandwich only to find a piece of green mold on an area you just bit into, they have to make some kind of damned unmistakable PC reference, and you lose your appetite to read any further.
I got to the point with National Geographic that just looking at the cover would turn me off, and I just stopped looking at the cover.
I admit now that I am extremely sensitive to PC BS, and even the slightest whiff is enough to turn me.
I used to be a big Washington Redskins fan decades ago, and some time back the NFL put out a biopic on the life of one of their receivers, a guy named Jerry Smith. I remembered him being a very talented guy, but had heard at one point he was a closeted homosexual and had died of AIDS. But I was interested, and began watching...the entire thing was apparently about his homosexuality. I watched perhaps two minutes and shut it off.
If people want to be homosexuals, IMO that is their business if they don’t impact me directly and I am willing to accept them at face value as a person...or a football player. But from the first second, it was all about his homosexuality. For God’s sake, why? Why do they have to do that?
In the book of the Left, that makes me a bad person because I don’t care to know the details of his homosexual lifestyle. But to me, I was willing to accept him and the memory of who he was as a football player, but...the Left won’t let me.
Who is the one imposing their will on others here?
Science is definitively political
My criteria is pretty simple. If they like the Three Stooges, they could be a keeper.
I used to think that I understood the old saying, “There are none so blind as those that will not see”,. but recent years have shown me that I hadn’t even scratched the surface of this understanding.
And there may still be depths to plunge. God help us all.
Not only that, he said that half the women were below average.
bookmarked under PC Madness
it's explained by the second law of homosexuality:
To the mentally healthy (heterosexual), sex is something you do.
To the mentally diseased ('homosexual'), sex is everything you are.
>Apparently we’re approaching the point where scientific research is going to have to be promulgated by samizdat.<
Apparently.
We’re seeing a very interesting paradigm shift in all levels of education. I’m afraid the primary, grammar, and secondary schools are gone for at least this generation.
Most feminized and feminist Cultural Marxist post-secondary education is also doomed on passing on our cultural and scientific accomplishments.
I am aware that some STEM schools—such as the example in this post—are also falling by the wayside.
There are some people using the internet to tell us about their work and that of others.
Yes, this is samizdat, and yes it is growing in importance.
I do think you nailed it.
When you hear many outspoken homosexuals define themselves when asked who they are, it always starts with “A gay...”
I took the exam so long ago that I don't remember if you had to identify your sex on the form. In most cases you can tell from the given name, but not always.
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