*facepalm*

Good heavens, what in the world would happen if we actually checked actual data before making laws rather than relying on the 'common sense' of the legislators. This would be a horrendous blow to demagougery.

You'll come for the moranic ignorance and logical fallacy of the article, you'll stay for the epic pwnage in the comments.

who could believe such a Nutt anyway

beve: You'll come for the moranic ignorance and logical fallacy of the article, you'll stay for the epic pwnage in the comments.

Favorite so far:

Between this article and the anti-atheist one I can only assume the new agenda is a return the dark ages where scientists can be burned like the witches they are.

- Ben, Winford, Cheshire, 03/11/2009 15:09

question_dj: *facepalm*

I came here to say exactly that.

-headdesk-

shouldn't that be "facts"

This is totally Nutts.

The trouble with beauty of a scientific argument is that it relies solely on empirical facts

FTFReality

No true scottsman argument in the article?
How odd.

She Godwinned herself.

Nicely done, moron.

I almost gave myself a nosebleed I facepalmed so hard.

Wow that is just fail all around. This was written in a way that just screams satire, some of the leaps are giant. The whole thing is a pile of crap.

Virulency: shouldn't that be "facts"

Alleged "Facts"

Daily Fail strikes again.

What's science ever done for us? Science is like a blabbermouth who tells you how the movie ends. Well I say there's some things we don't want to know - important things!

beve: You'll come for the moranic ignorance and logical fallacy of the article, you'll stay for the epic pwnage in the comments.

Subby here, that's exactly why I had to share the article with Farkers, some of those comments are gold, in fact pretty much all of them are! :-)

She would like to buy an argument, please.

"Try saying that ecstasy is safe in the sink estates of our big cities, where police, social workers and teachers work to improve the lives of young people at the bottom of the heap. Try saying it to those who see, every single day, the devastation wrought not only on the youngsters themselves, but on whole communities by the casual abuse of drugs."

WOW! What utter foolishness. Because a drug causes problems for youth who abuse it, the drug should be illegal for adults to use? Well the same could be said about alcohol and tobacco. Nobody is advocating to make drugs legal for children. Nice straw man, jackasses.

Science's reliance upon "Empirical Facts" is exactly the reason I trust none of it.

I'm an American, and as such am against empires, be they Roman, Soviet, British... Science should have no truck with empires, no matter how much the empire's facts fit their agenda.

As, Pat Buchanan said, America is a "Republic, not an empire." That's why I trust only Republican facts, not Empirical.

Oh I forgot to add, 5 minutes before I submitted the article it actually had a picture of Hitler in it as well! :D

"As Margaret Thatcher once said: 'Advisers advise and ministers decide.' "

I can handle the hitler reference stupidity but who in their right mind thinks its a good idea to quote Thatcher?

/outside of CEO's of large grocery store chains that is

Leaps of logic, truthiness, and a Godwin to boot? This one has it all!

A++!!! WOULD FACEPALM AGAIN!

I agree with the decision to fire this smartass scientist. The thing about scientists is they are talking about things they study like it's going to be the end-all, be-all answer to everything. Science is always changing and is rarely right. Why should we believe anything that comes from their studies when common sense says something completely opposite? Like global warming, it's fall, it's cold, theory denied.

lettuce99: Science's reliance upon "Empirical Facts" is exactly the reason I trust none of it.

I'm an American, and as such am against empires, be they Roman, Soviet, British... Science should have no truck with empires, no matter how much the empire's facts fit their agenda.

As, Pat Buchanan said, America is a "Republic, not an empire." That's why I trust only Republican facts, not Empirical.

I see no flaws in your logic