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Back to episode — Episode 2454 CWSA 04/24/24

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ator on world events, has introduced a new word into our vocabulary: the retardosphere. All right I'm just going to read you what he said because it's kind of funny the way he puts it. So Constantine Kisin says the woke left-wing sphere was created by sensible people on the left being silent when they should have said something. The right-wing sphere is being formed in exactly the same way. And he…

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ere that you know what the truth is and the other people got it wrong. How's that sit with you?

Let's talk about evolutionary biology that science got right. Now if science got it right wouldn't that be really unique in science to be right? We know that 50% of the studies can't be reproduced. I'm pretty sure that climate change is completely BS if you look at the models. I'm pretty sure that the field of psychology is probably more BS than that. I'm pretty sure that string theory is not going to pan out. I don't think physicists can really explain any of the things that they're talking about but the math works you know and sometimes the experiment will prove they were right but I don't think they know what's going on. I don't think they can explain the double slit experiment without using words that just sound crazy. So you know chemistry is probably pretty solid because you can run the experiment and see if it works and engineering is solid. So we're real good at — well not we but people, some people — we're good at making rockets that can maybe go tomorrow someday but that's engineering right? Science is as close to completely broken as anything has ever been. So it feels almost an out-of-date opinion to say that truth is king and believe the science. We just came out of a pandemic believing the science sounds like the dumb view at this point. And so I'd like to suggest that the people who are saying that they know which science is correct because science is good and they've got all these facts, I'd like to suggest that I'm not sure that's the smartest take in 2024. In 2024 I think everything that can't be proven in an experiment on a table like chemistry is probably BS. There's a far greater chance it's not true.

Now I got dragged into this evolution thing because I said the following. I said that the survival of the fittest — or I'm sorry survival, what do they call it, natural selection — I said in a post that natural select

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ion was no longer believed by most scientists. Now of course the people who believe that they knew jumped all over me and said what are you talking about, natural selection is believed by almost all scientists. To which I said I probably should have said survival of the fittest because if you're not aware of this one of the most famous evolutionary biologists, Stephen Jay Gould, he was famous for…

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