Female Crash Test Dummy Says She Doesn't Know How Car Got Totaled https://t.co/8h1bGANvj8 pic.twitter.com/XU9ihRw9zK

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 30, 2023

How many @CBC reporters does it take to screw in a light bulb? Three to complain about the implicit sexism in the joke; ten to apply for a government subsidy to support them while complaining; two to purchase the requisite carbon offsets; one to ensure bilingual translation; two… https://t.co/YU67w920kT

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) April 30, 2023

🚨I do remember this. Please retweet so we can help everyone remember. @KariLake won! 🎯💯👍 pic.twitter.com/i0KnIfEcNd

— DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 (@1Nicdar) April 30, 2023

This one is good:

Biden Campaign Hires Stunt Double For High-Risk Stairs Scene https://t.co/DXyQDUjSqp pic.twitter.com/gmOiUCE7cp

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 29, 2023

Sid Caesar:

Brooks: Biden Is Countering ‘Amoral Realism’ of We’ve Got to Take Care of Ourselves

“…On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he likes President Joe Biden’s soul of America messaging because the election is a contrast “between a moral vision and an amoral realism” that is represented in the idea that “We’ve got to take care of [ourselves].”

Brooks said, “I love the phrasing, because the soul of America suggests that America has a moral essence, and that moral essence is under threat. And, in my view, it’s under threat from sort of an amoralistic realism, not only of Trump, but of Trumpism, and the idea that it’s a dog-eat-dog world, people are selfish, you’ve just got to take care of yourself…”

Our media is garbage.

Here’s Biden’s moral vision:

Joe Biden hosted the football team today! He was to be presented with a ball signed by the team, a helmet and a football jersey with his name on it. But Biden grabbed only a sweater and began to wander, looking for a way out. pic.twitter.com/z7tJONIp81

— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 29, 2023

Cultish Democrats would vote for a racoon if it promised to force their politico-religious beliefs on the rest of the country.

Age-onset cognitive decline.

Nearly 9 in 10 in new poll hold feds responsible for border crisis, most expect states to fix

Michigan Students Sue After Being Forced to Remove “Let’s Go Brandon” Sweatshirts

“…the Supreme Court famously declared that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”…”

27 Democrats in the Colorado House of Reps just voted against making indecent exposure to minors a class 6 felony

He has to answer for crazy shit.

Jane Roberts, who is married to Chief Justice John Roberts, made $10.3 million in commissions from elite law firms, whistleblower documents show

HBCUs overwhelmingly lack DEI departments, research shows

Federal Government Behind Massive Operation to Send Illegal Immigrants into U.S.

“…Migrants are funneled towards the U.S. southern border via a sophisticated logistics operation paid for by American taxpayers and the United Nations, says war correspondent Michael Yon…”

“…This is weaponized migration,” Michael Yon tells The Florida Standard. “Weaponized migration is being used to change the U.S. demographic, and it’s going on in many parts of the world. It’s clearly going to destroy Europe and the United States,” Yon says…”

These buses full of migrants just left toward America from Darien, Panama. Any idea the Darien is closed is false. I made this video a couple minutes ago. pic.twitter.com/gmGlFruHuP

— Michael Yon: Callsign BIG HONEY 6 (@Michael_Yon) April 15, 2023

KATIE BRITT: DEMS TRYING TO ‘CHIP AWAY’ AT HYDE AMENDMENT BANNING TAXPAYER-FUNDED ABORTIONS

State, local legislatures eye bans on gas-powered lawn equipment

A mad rush to stupid.

Experts rip California pilot program testing COVID-sniffing dogs on schoolchildren

Life among Democrats.

TEEN BOY WHO IDENTIFIES AS TRANS BRAWLS WITH GIRLS, EXPOSES GENITALS AT CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL

 

The ‘Hurtful’ Idea of Scientific Merit

“…Ideology now dominates research in the U.S. more pervasively than it did at the Soviet Union’s height…

…Until a few months ago, we’d never heard of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, a peer-reviewed publication whose aim is to promote “free inquiry on controversial topics.” Our research typically didn’t fit that description. We finally learned of the journal’s existence, however, when we tried to publish a commentary about how modern science is being compromised by a de-emphasis on merit. Apparently, what was once anodyne and unobjectionable is now contentious and outré, even in the hard sciences.

Merit isn’t much in vogue anywhere these days. We’ve seen this in the trend among scientists to judge scientific research by its adherence to dominant progressive orthodoxies and in the growing reluctance of our institutions to hire and fund scientists based on their ability to propose and conduct exciting projects. Our intent was to defend established and effective practices of judging science based on its merit alone.

Yet as we shopped our work to various scientific publications, we found no takers—except one. Evidently our ideas were politically unpalatable. It turns out the only place you can publish once-standard conclusions these days is in a journal committed to heterodoxy.

The crux of our argument is simple: Science that doesn’t prioritize merit doesn’t work, and substituting ideological dogma for quality is a shortcut to disaster. A prime example is Lysenkoism—the incursion of Marxist ideology into Soviet and Chinese agriculture in the mid-20th century. Beginning in the 1930s, the U.S.S.R. started to enforce the untenable theories of Trofim Lysenko, a charlatan Russian agronomist who rejected, among other things, the existence of standard genetic inheritance. As scientists dissented—rejecting Lysenko’s claims for lack of evidence—they were fired or sent to the gulag. Implementation of his theories in Soviet and, later, Chinese agriculture led to famines and the starvation of millions. Russian biology still hasn’t recovered.

Yet a wholesale and unhealthy incursion of ideology into science is occurring again—this time in the West. We see it in progressives’ claim that scientific truths are malleable and subjective, similar to Lysenko’s insistence that genetics was Western “pseudoscience” with no place in progressive Soviet agriculture. We see it when scientific truths—say, the binary nature of sex—are either denied or distorted because they’re politically repugnant.

We see it as well in activists’ calls to “decolonize” scientific fields, to reduce the influence of what’s called “Western science” and adopt indigenous “ways of knowing.” No doubt different cultures have different ways of interpreting natural processes—sometimes invoking myth and legend—and this variation should be valued as an important aspect of sociology and anthropology. But these “ways of knowing” aren’t coequal to modern science, and it would be foolish to pretend otherwise.

In some ways this new species of Lysenkoism is more pernicious than the old, because it affects all science—chemistry, physics, life sciences, medicine and math—not merely biology and agriculture. The government isn’t the only entity pushing it, either. “Progressive” scientists promote it, too, along with professional societies, funding agencies like the National Institutes of Health and Energy Department, scientific journals and university administrators. When applying for openings as a university scientist today, job candidates may well be evaluated more by their record of supporting “social justice” than by their scientific achievements..”

Don't question Bill Gates

Don't look into the fucked up shit he's done in India and Africa pic.twitter.com/BGwfIaCey9

— illuminatibot (@iluminatibot) April 22, 2023