tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840508226007630755.post7907742609324731234..comments2023-04-16T23:43:11.235+08:00Comments on Mirror Signal Move: "Fakegate"Mike Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08745281285031316740noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840508226007630755.post-61171403670955405212012-03-01T03:17:31.914+08:002012-03-01T03:17:31.914+08:00Yes... you know I always think back to that staine...Yes... you know I always think back to that <a href="http://mirrorsignalmove.blogspot.com/2011/06/left.html" rel="nofollow">stained glass window</a> the Fabians had made. It shows two men striking an image of the world with hammers - again and again and again.<br /><br />That's the Left; their committment to State coercion can be disguised (hence the wolf in sheep's clothing), but it is as unshakeable as Orwell's boot-on-human-face-forever image.Mike Faganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08745281285031316740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840508226007630755.post-21599827001365443702012-02-29T03:25:58.213+08:002012-02-29T03:25:58.213+08:00Something I read at the linked Bishop Hill post ha...Something I read at the linked Bishop Hill post has lodged itself in my mind and begun to fester. It’s this jaw-dropping admission from Bora Zivkovic, the “blogs editor” at Scientific American, concerning the best methods for. . . winning hearts and minds, I guess, in what clearly rank for him as climate-change wars:<br /><br />“Educating people does not work, it assumes the 'deficit model'. Exposing shennanigans, sources of money, finding hypocrysy - that may work.”<br /><br />That’s just a hell of a thing for an editor at Scientific American to say. <br /><br />If you read a bit about this “deficit model,” as I had to do, you’ll see that Zivkovic’s (Scientific American’s?) concern is not that people can’t learn scientific facts and theories, but rather that when they acquire the pertinent information, they still may fail to fall in line with what “concerned scientists” advocate in the way of public policy. Therefore Zivkovic - and those of his colleagues who would rather simply cow a compliant populace than conduct or report science - prefer to “engage” rather than to educate, to emphasize “common values” rather than information. Or, to judge by Zivkovic’s tweeted recommendations, to fling poo rather than find and spread truth. Whatever works, when education “does not.”<br /><br />Way to go, Scientific American!Linda Morgannoreply@blogger.com