Climate Denial Crock of the Week

23 Responses to “Creationist State Senator Wants to Know: How do E-Coli turn into People?”

1. neilblanchard Says:

   
   January 21, 2013 at 3:23 am

   Ask any farmer about super weeds. Ask any doctor about drug resistant bacteria.

   How do people get away with such belligerent stupidity? How do they escape ridicule?

   Neil

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   • uknowispeaksense Says:

     
     January 21, 2013 at 5:04 am

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     • rayduray Says:

       
       January 22, 2013 at 4:42 am

       You need to extend the reading time on the last few captions. As edited, this is incomprehensible.

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       • uknowispeaksense Says:

         
         January 22, 2013 at 4:55 am

         I can read it twice in that time. Press pause.

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         • rayduray Says:

           
           January 22, 2013 at 5:04 am

           Please, for the sake of humanity, do not consider a career in communications.

           As a Mensan emeritus, I take pointed umbrage at your brash and cavalier response.

           You are singlularly capable of making people want to ignore you in the future.

           Though, contrariwise, I’m more inclined toward reading Doonsebury at a comprehensible rate in print.
         • uknowispeaksense Says:

           
           January 22, 2013 at 5:29 am

           Please, for the sake of humanity, do not consider a career in dilpomacy.

           As a normal person, I take offense at the excessive use of pompous adjectives in your response.

           You are singlularly capable of making people think you an arrogant wanker.

           If you are so slow that you struggle to read a few words and comprehend the punchline in an animated Doonesbury cartoon in the time that normal people can twice, that’s your problem, but thanks for sharing.
         • rayduray Says:

           
           January 22, 2013 at 5:38 am

           Re: “If you are so slow that you struggle to read a few words and comprehend the punchline in an animated Doonesbury cartoon in the time that normal people can twice, that’s your problem,”

           As someone who scored a 1592 out of a possible 1600 on my SATs and who has demonstrably got an above-average vocabulary, sharing my observation that your derivative editing of Garry Trudeau’s insightful cartooning was sub-standard, I’d have thought that your strictly superficial effort could have been well served by the kindly offered observation of a member of the general public.

           I stand corrected, God. I shall not attempt to make polite suggestion about instantaneously observed and necessary video timing corrections to one as arrogantly stupid as you in the future.

           ***
           Fortunately for us, there is a professional videographer on this blog and he never makes the stupid mistake you did.
         • uknowispeaksense Says:

           
           January 22, 2013 at 5:52 am

           I am flattered that you feel you have to prove something to me by quoting your school marks. Well done. I, for one, also did well in my high school and tertiary education, but am quietly self-assured. (Appealing to your own authority is sad by the way).

           But clearly you really don’t stand by the comments you make. Either I am singularly capable of making people want to ignore me or I’m not. I can only assume that it is the latter given you have chosen not to ignore me…or you aren’t really a person. Personally I’m not sure you are a person, but perhaps a robot thesaurus programmed to have an inferiority complex.
         • rayduray Says:

           
           January 22, 2013 at 6:01 am

           Now about the climate. Is seems particularly Hadean and toxic with me, a real human being you can look up in the white pages, being declared a robot by a mere anonymized wanking shadow of a putz.

           The only reason for this note is to indicate that I do appreciate irony. Though you, whatever lower order of miscreant you are, much less so.

           You were so good when you spotted the Garry Trudeau irony, and now you seemed to become a monster. Why’s that? I only offered a friendly and (I thought) helpful editing suggestion, and now I’ve become the butt of your abuse? What’s up with that? You are out of control and not at all decent.
2. MorinMoss Says:

   
   January 21, 2013 at 4:12 am

   He’s in a special class of stupid but, in his defence, he didn’t elect himself to public office.

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3. ubrew12 Says:

   
   January 21, 2013 at 8:50 am

   The question for Senator Walsworth is how did so many people turn into E Coli?

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4. James Iremonger Says:

   
   January 21, 2013 at 9:21 am

   If E coli could evolve into humans, he would be the result.

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   • MorinMoss Says:

     
     January 21, 2013 at 9:55 pm

     I think you’ve just won the Zinger of the Day award.

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5. uknowispeaksense Says:

   
   January 21, 2013 at 9:42 am

   Here in Australia, in some circles, the Senator would likely be given the nickname “Shitfer” which is short for “Shit for brains”. I would suggest the search for E coli could begin between his ears. Apologies for my use of language Peter.

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6. joffan7 Says:

   
   January 21, 2013 at 4:17 pm

   So, the creationists have moved on to a different misrepresentation of evolution? I was quite fond of the nonsense that animals should spontaneously appear in jars of peanut butter.

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7. John Jorgensen Says:

   
   January 21, 2013 at 7:21 pm

   (Trying this again, can’t seem to post comments…)
   Here’s a shout out for Zack Kopplin, the young man testifying patiently on the panel;
   

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   • rayduray Says:

     
     January 22, 2013 at 4:47 am

     Well that God Al Gore sold this Current network to a medievalist Islamic monarch so that the truth won’t be buried by ancient prejudices in the future.

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     • rayduray Says:

       
       January 22, 2013 at 4:48 am

       Damn it, I need an editor!

       First (and only) sentence revised:

       “Well thank God that Al Gore…. etc.”

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     • uknowispeaksense Says:

       
       January 22, 2013 at 6:15 am

       I took a straw poll around the office and it came in at 17-4 that you are most likely a “robot thesaurus with an inferiority complex”. You should be pleased. The 4 had you marked as a “pompous wanker, but human”.

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       • rayduray Says:

         
         January 22, 2013 at 6:18 am

         You get paid for this?

         My hat’s off to you. That genius.

         If you’re not the boss, someone’s getting screwed.

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         • uknowispeaksense Says:

           
           January 22, 2013 at 6:25 am

           What can I say? When a large number of the environmental science faculty is so dedicated that we usually work an extra hour unpaid most days, we feel we are entitled to a little comic relief.
         • rayduray Says:

           
           January 22, 2013 at 6:28 am

           Thank your for your contribution. But does it really take 21 of you to accomplish nothing?
8. John Jorgensen Says:

   
   January 21, 2013 at 7:22 pm

   Oh, NOW it works.

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