26th January 2017, 6:09 AM
Now that's a loaded question! But lately, we're all thinking it. How could the older generation listen to a single utterance from Trump and think "yes, this guy seems on the level"?
Science itself (that floating cloud of science hovering out there) seems to have something to say.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...121836.htm
Depressing... But if accurate, it isn't 100% so. There's at least a few particular old people who's bunkum radar seems to be functioning just fine in their twilight years, such as James Randi. I can only hope I hold up that well and don't end up falling for some honey lipped politician who's objectively terrible by every metric the future young people know to use.
Science itself (that floating cloud of science hovering out there) seems to have something to say.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...121836.htm
Depressing... But if accurate, it isn't 100% so. There's at least a few particular old people who's bunkum radar seems to be functioning just fine in their twilight years, such as James Randi. I can only hope I hold up that well and don't end up falling for some honey lipped politician who's objectively terrible by every metric the future young people know to use.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)