Which simply confirms what we all know to be true. Politics is the endgame of DC, not Science.
“ . . . the main method in evidence there was the ad hominum attack. Certain things said about myself and my dearest sister in Christ Alamo-Girl were scandalous, and I will not repeat them here.”
All in lowest tradition of political calumny. Entirely in keeping the low form of huckstering we’ve come to expect from DC (again, both the website and the city)
“. . . the use of ad hominum attack is a diversionary tactic designed to conceal the paucity of actual understanding of the issues in dispute, or of any good-faith willingness to engage them at all.”
I don’t know that it’s paucity, or if it’s the knowledge the issues you mention cannot be adequately addressed with the limited resources DC brings to the table. I don’t know that it matters. Either way, it is a confession of intellectual poverty.
Thanks for writing. Always enlightening.
Sometimes it seems to me that the politicalization of science is the curse of our age. But then, everything is "political" these days.
How on earth did this happen?
Thanks, dear, for your moral support!