tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4456348657596914237.post5777732548699273008..comments2024-03-14T09:06:12.900-04:00Comments on Eco-Evo Evo-Eco: ALTERNATIVE FACTS: Scientists got 'em too!Ben Hallerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17875404974157070805noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4456348657596914237.post-80485354847927923562018-06-12T22:29:00.043-04:002018-06-12T22:29:00.043-04:00Really Thank you sharing post Data Science online ...Really Thank you sharing post <a href="https://onlineitguru.com/data-science-online-training-placement.html" rel="nofollow">Data Science online Course India</a>Tejutejuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536889753125110390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4456348657596914237.post-66182775008886078202017-01-29T19:44:48.647-05:002017-01-29T19:44:48.647-05:00I totally agree that what Trump is doing has no ju...I totally agree that what Trump is doing has no justification or rationale. I think he could very well be the worst thing ever to happen to America - maybe even the world.<br /><br />Thanks BenAndrew Hendryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03653724437118653645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4456348657596914237.post-55709914570149763872017-01-29T19:15:11.833-05:002017-01-29T19:15:11.833-05:00I'm glad that you added the paragraph at the b...I'm glad that you added the paragraph at the bottom. I still find this post to be in extraordinarily poor taste at a moment when everybody with any moral compass at all is freaking out about Trump's crusade against truth. From the title of this post on down, you persistently draw a false equivalence between the "alternative facts" of Trump and his ilk, and the sometimes problematic relationship between absolute truth and science's iterative, flawed attempt at approximating that truth. But Trump's "alternative facts" are really simply lies – deliberate, bald-faced lies, told for reasons of power and profit. Science, on the other hand, has no truck with such lies; any scientist caught doing such things (deliberately falsifying data, for example) gets kicked out of the club. So there is no equivalence there at all, and using the term "alternative facts" to refer to what scientists do is deeply offensive, and potentially quite damaging as well. When people at government agencies like NASA and the EPA are in fear of being muzzled and losing their jobs because of Trump's "alternative facts", and the whole world is at risk of suffering catastrophic effects from climate change because of "alternative facts", and Muslims and Mexicans are being reviled and barred from the U.S. because of "alternative facts", this post seems more than a little tone-deaf. I feel sure that your heart is in the right place, Andrew, which is why I'm not more angry about this. But I don't think you understand how wildly inappropriate this post really is.Ben Hallerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17875404974157070805noreply@blogger.com