Vivek Ramaswamy says he's "driven by evidence and data." That's of course a half-truth, which is another name for a lie. Scam artists only like evidence and data so they can cherry pick from it to sell a lie. Ironically, the more evidence there is for something, e.g. biological evolution, the easier it is to fool people into denying it, …
Vivek Ramaswamy says he's "driven by evidence and data." That's of course a half-truth, which is another name for a lie. Scam artists only like evidence and data so they can cherry pick from it to sell a lie. Ironically, the more evidence there is for something, e.g. biological evolution, the easier it is to fool people into denying it, especially if they want to. A few sentences back I see the term "flat-earthers." Flat-earthism may be the most extreme of all the long-debunked versions of natural history. And young-earthism is not far behind. But the most devious scam is "intelligent design," which shrewdly takes no position on the age or shape of earth, or even on common ancestry of species, and instead concentrates on promoting irrational denial of evolution, thus keeping all the people they fooled under a "big tent." Most evolution deniers are not flat-earthers, and contrary to a popular media caricature, most are not even young-earthers. Peddlers of evolution-denial - mostly MAGA culists nowadays - know that their "science" is bogus, but it has never been about the science, only a misguided and paranoid "culture war."
Vivek Ramaswamy says he's "driven by evidence and data." That's of course a half-truth, which is another name for a lie. Scam artists only like evidence and data so they can cherry pick from it to sell a lie. Ironically, the more evidence there is for something, e.g. biological evolution, the easier it is to fool people into denying it, especially if they want to. A few sentences back I see the term "flat-earthers." Flat-earthism may be the most extreme of all the long-debunked versions of natural history. And young-earthism is not far behind. But the most devious scam is "intelligent design," which shrewdly takes no position on the age or shape of earth, or even on common ancestry of species, and instead concentrates on promoting irrational denial of evolution, thus keeping all the people they fooled under a "big tent." Most evolution deniers are not flat-earthers, and contrary to a popular media caricature, most are not even young-earthers. Peddlers of evolution-denial - mostly MAGA culists nowadays - know that their "science" is bogus, but it has never been about the science, only a misguided and paranoid "culture war."