Thank you, Jon Stewart, for having Michael Specter talking about Denialism

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About how people do not trust science and progress including, yes, vaccines.

At the end he gave a great example of a woman who would not vaccinate her child against Polio. We don't have Polio in this country, she said. Except, there is in other parts of the world, and a visitor who carries it may just be sitting next to you someplace.

Yes, he also supports genetically modified grains if the alternative is mass starvation in developing nations.

http://booksellers.penguin.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594202308,00.html

Send this book as a Christmas gift to Bill Maher, even thought this will go right over his head.

[nemo137]

1. What, someone looking at issues rationally?

Psh.

[arcadian]

2. Did he have tread marks on his face?

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3. Not this evening, but there is always tomorrow (nt)

[Swamp Rat]

4. Eventualism

Eventualism isn't designed to answer all questions.

It's designed to question all answers.

The public perception of reality before Eventualism was inadequate.

Eventualism provides one with nothing less than a transcendent idea of reality.

Soon its influence will extend beyond the tangible empirical world and into the collective unconscious, where it will become even more powerful.

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5. Fascinating. Will have to look into this (nt)