Douche of the Day
Saturday 5 June 2010 - Filed under Dumbassery
Bill Maher. This guy has turned from amazingly funny comedian, to a not at all funny politically motivated shit throwing douche. And an amazingly uninformed one as well:
New Rule: Al Gore must come out with a sequel to his movie about climate change and call it, An Inconvenient Truth 2: What the Fuck Is Wrong with You People? A bunch of depressing new surveys reveal that people in droves are starting to believe that global warming is a hoax — and this time, it’s not just us. People are always accusing me of hating America and calling it stupid, so tonight I’d like to take a few moments to hate England and call it stupid. Because now English people don’t believe in global warming either. I thought the English were smarter than that. The home of Newton and Darwin. I can’t believe we let these people build our exploding oil platforms.
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That’s the problem with our obsession with always seeing two sides of every issue equally — especially when one side has a lot of money. It means we have to pretend there are always two truths, and the side that doesn’t know anything has something to say. On this side of the debate: Every scientist in the world. On the other: Mr. Potato Head.
There is no debate here — just scientists vs. non-scientists, and since the topic is science, the non-scientists don’t get a vote. We shouldn’t decide everything by polling the masses. Just because most people believe something doesn’t make it true. This is the fallacy called argumentum ad numeram: the idea that something is true because great numbers believe it. As in: Eat shit, 20 trillion flies can’t be wrong.
Gee. I guess the large contingency of fucking scientists who have forced the Royal Society to backpedal on their “the debate is over” rhetoric doesn’t count, huh fuckface? If by “no debate”, Maher means “a very rigorous debate”, and if he means “scientists” when he says “non-scientists” then he’s absolutely correct. If not, then he’s the same kind of uninformed dumb fuck he accuses everyone else of being. I’m not here to suggest that climate change isn’t real, but the idea that everything concerning climate change and our role in it, if there is one at all, is settled is fucking stupid, and anyone who puts forth that kind of rhetoric is deserving of a douche award.
Bill. Heed your own fucking words, asshole, because when you write “There is no debate here — just scientists vs. non-scientists, and since the topic is science, the non-scientists don’t get a vote”, you ought to have enough fucking sense to understand that that includes you too.
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