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bdamomma

(63,928 posts) Thu Mar 26, 2020, 07:36 PM Mar 2020

They Just Don't Like Science

https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/a-harvard-scientist-warned-the-coronavirus-could-be-a-thermonuclear-pandemic-but-he-was-ignored/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4119

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They Just Don't Like Science (Original Post) bdamomma Mar 2020 OP

Allow me to add mathematics, logic, and analytical ability to the list of things guillaumeb Mar 2020 #1

We need justice, many of us on this board are going to die Eliot Rosewater Mar 2020 #2

Faith based thinking zipplewrath Mar 2020 #3

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

1. Allow me to add mathematics, logic, and analytical ability to the list of things

Reply to bdamomma (Original post)

Thu Mar 26, 2020, 07:41 PM

Mar 2020

that they do not like.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,125 posts)

2. We need justice, many of us on this board are going to die

Reply to bdamomma (Original post)

Thu Mar 26, 2020, 07:41 PM

Mar 2020

The ones who survive must seek justice for us

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)

3. Faith based thinking

Reply to bdamomma (Original post)

Thu Mar 26, 2020, 08:01 PM

Mar 2020

It's hard to let go of faith based thinking. Science "tests" your beliefs and reveals them to be true or not. Even those who don't have religious faith can be guilty of wanting what they WANT to be the way things work can get mad at finding out that none the less they don't actually work that way.

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