“I am a liberal arts major who is tired being judged by people who think I’m stupid and liberal.”
I am a mechanical engineer with 25 years of experience. I am a little quirky so I read tons of science and I do keep up my math and science skills for fun. I have no doubt that even now I can probably pass any college level calc-1 through 3, diffEQ, statistics, statics, dynamics, or any similar class final exam right now this second with no preparation. I even still tutor anything from algebra to advanced calculus to whatever kids of friends need it.
So with that little bit of intro, I will say that I am also a little OCD about certain subjects such as, for example, global warming, and I can honestly say that I have probably read at least one hour of science (real science) about that subject every day since the late 90’s. Whether I am at home, or traveling for work in Indiana, or North Carolina, or Oman, or Thailand, or wherever, I read each and every single day. I know every scientist by name and by photo on both sides. I know the controversies, I know the science on both sides, I know the tech, the breakthroughs, the junk, and the gold, and I intimately know 20 years worth of the drama.
So the point of this little rant, is that there is not a single thing on this planet that makes spikes my blood pressure and makes my teeth itch more that when some whiny millenial (or genXer for that matter) who couldn’t solve an addition problem to escape a wet paper bag and who’s last science book had the word “political” in the title, gives me that smug condescending look through their horned rimmed glasses and calls me a f*^^&E science denier and to learn some f*&^%#$@ science.
I can’t blame you for feeling like that.
(My post is accidental - posted before I was finished and it was so ridiculous that I just laughed and didn’t correct it.)
So how do you reply to the accusation that you’re an unthinking climate denier by a person who proudly belongs to the nouveau-Brown/Green Shirts?
Agreed.
Also, when did horn rimmed glasses become a thing again? I had to change my design to not be a hipster.