Keep fuckwits out of government!

[TruXta]

Why? I'm not. What a bizarre tangent.

Nevermind then.

 

[likesfish]

science isn't too good at personal behaviour or economics niether of which are sciences regardless of how much people write about them marxism isn't science either
although fucking voodo or examinging chicken entrails would do a better job of formulating a drug misuse policy than crack down hard check what the daily mail thinks done jackboots and crack down harder to look tough

 

[Bang to Rights]

What about opinions between science and the church?

* "You're wrong!"

** "No, you are!"

* "You are!

** "You are!"

* "Prove it!"

** "You prove it!"

 

[ericjarvis]

the only way to keep fuckwits out of government is to do the rational thing and abolish government.

It's that or abolish fuckwits. Otherwise it will always be the case that opinionated cretins will continue to see a career in politics as their best chance of getting laid or loaded.

 

[elbows]

Oh not this science as an answer to politics bullshit again. There are no end of scientists who I wouldn't want to let anywhere near power, not least because specialism tends to narrow ones worldview. The world of science is not free from dogma.

The area where I feel science has something to offer politics is in the realm of putting ideas to the test. I would really love to live in a world where there was room for people to actually try things out, free from meddling. But I can't begin to imagine how that could be done in practice.

 

[dilute micro]

The area where I feel science has something to offer politics is in the realm of putting ideas to the test. I would really love to live in a world where there was room for people to actually try things out, free from meddling. But I can't begin to imagine how that could be done in practice.

Testing is done all the time. We either learn the hard way or we don't learn at all.

 

[elbows]

I should clarify that I meant room to try far more things out, including far more radical things.

I've seen reform of all sorts of things in my lifetime, and yet not that many ideas have actually been put to the test. We don't even tend to learn from the experience of other countries all that much. There are too many forces in the way, and I do not think that science offers a workaround.

 

[Dr Jon]

What about opinions between science and the church?

Church is to keep superstitious fuckwits out of the pub.

 

[dilute micro]

Where people talk sports they're bound to talk superstition.

 

[Dr Jon]

Where people talk sports they're bound to talk superstition.

aye, that and bollox...

 

[likesfish]

science has its uses if the MOD had listened to somebody with say a physics A-level would have pointed out the idiocy of trying to build a tank that will fit on a c130 yet have the Armour and weapons of a main battle tank the fres plan.

or letting the MOD try building its own software for a Chinook helicopter

 

[likesfish]

science has its uses if the MOD had listened to somebody with say a physics A-level would have pointed out the idiocy of trying to build a tank that will fit on a c130 yet have the Armour and weapons of a main battle tank the fres plan.

or letting the MOD try building its own software for a Chinook helicopter

 

[smmudge]

There's no place for science in ethics (which really is what government should deal in). Science is just too sure of itself. I think the best government is an indecisive one.

 

[gosub]

the only way to keep fuckwits out of government is to do the rational thing and abolish government.

If you abolished government in America you'd have people with the most guns in charge. Plus ca change

 

[dilute micro]

If you abolished government in America you'd have people with the most guns in charge. Plus ca change

That's how it's supposed to be...except with that government.

 

[hipipol]

The need for certainty is constant
Certainty isn't

 

[elbows]

Ahh, perfect.