I believe in science. And if you don't, I'm sorry, but I think you're an idiot. I'm not trying to be mean. And I'm not knocking your religion. Honestly, I've never really gotten the whole religion/science dilemma. My parents are probably one of the most devout people I know, and still, never once in my life have I ever heard them be conflicted between their faith and science.
But what I really have an issue with is people who decide on their own that science is wrong. Because, you know, they know better. Dude, I'm not saying get behind every random study that gets published or anything. Sure, there's bad science out there; you gotta be able to tell the difference. But those people out there who decide not to vaccinate their kids cuz they think it will cause autism and then infect everybody's else's kids with measles? They're idiots. I guess its a controversial topic, but to me the choice is simple. Its not like deciding whether to breast feed or bottle feed, or feed organic or not. Those are choices each parent gets to make. Whether to vaccinate? No, not when it means you're putting other kids at risk. And definitely not when the weight of scientific evidence has found no correlation between vaccinations and autism. Sure, you're injecting a live virus into a baby, might make the little guy a little sick -- there's always a chance of that. But where did people get the whole autism connection from anyway?
Or that guy at our table a couple of weeks ago, when we were at a fundraiser . . . that guy, who stated that global warming was a myth? Who told us that he "wasn't convinced"? And if it does exist, it certainly wasn't our fault? That guy was a moron. A moron backed by Sarah Palin which is SO depressing, though I'm not sure why I'm depressed by that fact most of all. I don't consider Sarah Palin to be much of an expert on anything, so its not like I look to her for my outlook on world issues. But maybe its the fact that she was almost our VP, and may be a fair representation of the many morons in this country.
To some extent, you can't blame him, I guess. How often is the environment in the news anyway? Global warming seems to be just a term that's out there all the time with no content or explanation. Ultimately, in order to affect change, we all need to really change the way we live our lives. And people are as clueless about that as we've always been cuz well, I guess the news is too busy reporting on MJ's death to care that on the same day, the House passed a million page climate change bill that very few people have probably read or understood (including the representatives that signed it).
So I wonder what it would take for this guy to be convinced. More news coverage? The islands of Maldives to be completely submerged? The polar bears to become extinct? All right, I'll admit though that my concern for global warming only began a few years ago when I was watching Planet Earth and saw their footage of this polar bear swimming desperately through the melting ice, looking for food. He finally came upon a herd of walruses and tried and tried to catch one, but no luck. When the video team left off, the bear was still starving and tired and unlikely to eat any time soon. I was almost in tears. So I know, its not like I was swayed by the breadth of scientific studies about global warming.
So do what you gotta do. Read the news more. Watch DVDs that make you want to cry. Whatever it takes. Cuz there's no excuse for being an idiot.
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