Look, if a republican economist provided accusations (scientific of course) that democratic rule seems to have lowered the average IQ in public schools, would you axiomatically, say, yes, or course, it cannot be challenged for these are infallible thinkers! In human history, we have the labor of biologists who supported Eugenics, and we have Lysenko, in the Soviet Union. Also, there is this. Allow us mere mortals to be able to reason for ourselves. The economists may be correct, or they may be wrong, or deliberately lying-which is my thought after drilling down a bit, Meanwhile... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-2-pro-nazi-nobelists-attacked-einstein-s-jewish-science-excerpt1/
-----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Nov 1, 2020 2:41 pm Subject: Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 2:21 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > A study from politicized Stanford economists doesn't work for me. Well of course it doesn't convince you, no finite amount of scientific evidence could convince you to change your world view, maybe an infinite amount could but I rather doubt it. For some people change is the most painful thing imaginable so denying reality is far more comfortable than denying a strongly held view. But that can only get you so far because reality cannot be fooled and it always gets its way in the end. That's why Trump is in such trouble right now, magical thinking makes for very entertaining Harry Potter novels but it doesn't work worth a damn in our world. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1060879933.1115337.1604260721156%40mail.yahoo.com.
