The attitude of many Freepers toward science has driven me to seriously consider discontinuing my monthly contributions to FR. I am tired of the constant snide comments from the idiots who "know better".
Yesterday I almost hit the abuse button on this thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273626/posts which attempts to link Trotskyite communism to a belief in Darwin's theories...absurd!
I stopped reading at post #7. Calling all you dislike as being Darwinist is like calling all you dislike as being fascist. The thing loses all meaning.
>>>Yesterday I almost hit the abuse button on this thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273626/posts which attempts to link Trotskyite communism to a belief in Darwin’s theories...absurd!
It wouldn’t have done you any good. I have hit the abuse button before on the flat earth threads, not on the basis of content, but simply because this crap isn’t NEWS. Defense of Genesis belongs in the RELIGION forum, or at least CHAT. My objections, and those of others were simply ignored.
I’m for people discussing whatever they want. But giving flat earth bloggers precedence in the NEWS forum while legitimate science discussions are routinely pushed into CHAT debases this entire website and undercuts our credibility on issues that really matter.
Rense.com pushes Bigfoot, Contrails, and UFOs. And FreeRepublic is becoming the place to be for the 6000 year old earth and people who think ALL science is a fraud. How screwed up is it that Rense is becoming relatively more intellectually serious.