Ridiculous tripe. Casting this kind of stupidity back in time reinforces the grossest conceits and prejudices about previous generations, who survived under circumstances which most moderns would certainly die from. These people were nowhere near as stupid of brutish as is commonly presented. The real genocide didn’t start until modern reason made its debut.
This is the kind of science that Inhofe, Trump, and Pruitt subscribe to. Rumor has it that the Koch Brothers are going to endow a number of science chairs at various red state universities and name them after these three.
yup. Sounds like conservative “science” today.
Ridiculous tripe. Casting this kind of stupidity back in time reinforces the grossest conceits and prejudices about previous generations, who survived under circumstances which most moderns would certainly die from. These people were nowhere near as stupid of brutish as is commonly presented. The real genocide didn’t start until modern reason made its debut.
like all fiction, it’s more a mirror for our own time than the past or future.
“These people were nowhere near as stupid o[r] brutish as is commonly presented.”
If they have the same percentage of people who avoid rigorous thought as we have today, then it’s safe to call many of them stupid. 😉
If you’ll excuse me now, I have to get to my Botox injection before I attend the anti-vaccine rally.
I was always impressed by the development of the sink/float test.
It really illuminated the connection between density and guilt.
This is the kind of science that Inhofe, Trump, and Pruitt subscribe to. Rumor has it that the Koch Brothers are going to endow a number of science chairs at various red state universities and name them after these three.