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  • the guy on the right has no timing, seriously that was painful

  • dumb fucking ass

  • ah what a delightfully ignorant leading statistic. scientists do not have a more valid political opinion than others,

  • @peteymandem well let me explain it to you. Science believe in facts. Republicans don't believe in facts. :)

  • @ymkamara420 another ignorant statement, learn to see things from your opponents point of view or your arguments are pointless

  • @peteymandem Ah yes, but scientists are more likely than other people to look up statistics, check facts, look for causes and correlations, and in general live in the real world. I don't know about you, but those are traits and habits that I myself feel are useful in making any kind of decisions, political or otherwise. They are also traits I would hope to find in politicians I would vote for. They are also traits sadly lacking in the majority of the electorate.

  • @ptolemyauletesXII That's true thanks for actually making a valid argument. I agree with everything you said, however I would also like to point out that scientists are generally atheist, christians have given the right wing a bad name in america, same reason you don't get many gay republicans. I'm sure if you took the bigotry out of the republicans the numbers would start to increase. I'm right wing in many ways and i would be embarrassed to say I voted Repubican if I lived in America.

  • the 6% are moderate fiscal conservatives

  • this is complete bullshit, from what ive read 65% of scientists are republicans, 25% independents and rest democrats

  • @Scattnam And from what I've read 100% are communists.

    Cenk has numbers, you're taking them out of your ass.

  • That is because most republicans believe only in the bible

  • So a guy that studies bugs or whatever is automatically politically enlightened? Are we to assume scientist are studying the cause of the European crisis and its effect on the value of our dollar while they are drilling ice core samples in the arctic? As someone that dislikes both parties, I think this clip is the same poor application of childish logic being used to chide the other side. People like Cenk and Beck encourage the ignorance and arrogance of both parties with this kind of soundbite.

  • @vertigo0331 you obviously didn't get it

    it's not about sientists being educated about politics and economics..

    it's about scientists being generally educated and rational thinking people who base their opinion on facts and objectivity

  • Really? Only 6% of scientists have brains? This is not good for us!!

  • @ABE01dr Being a scientist requires, for no matter what form of work it is, a University degree, that makes scientists, of any sort, more inteligent then the avarage Republican.

  • @dave19941000 Actually in the real world. A degree doesn't mean shit. This is why companies hire specialist to weed out the people who have degrees but have no brains to perform even simple jobs. It has been proven that when people get a four year degree their IQ's go down at least 10 points. This is from the conflicting bullshit being taught.

  • @GoodScienceForYou I need a source. No source, no credibility.

  • @GoodScienceForYou It has been proven that when people get a four year degree their IQ's go down at least 10 points."

    Ahhh, then you should be able to show us some studies or will you run because you can't?

  • @GoodScienceForYou An IQ never changes

  • @GoodScienceForYou "It has been proven that when people get a four year degree their IQ's go down at least 10 points." No it hasn't.

  • A conservative pundits that does not exist! oxymoron

    

  • LOL, same percentage as believers... Go figure...

  • just from the titles i tend to want to watch the young turks but they are always boring as fuck.

  • @beatlesto its a news show lolwhat do u expect

  • i like how 45% are independent. they know whats up. polarization of dems and reps will run this country into the ground. thanks to news and opinion like this. when everything goes to shit after years and years of gridlock the people will turn their backs on this sort of media, and we will enter an age of reason and critical thinking(those who dont will fall straight to the bottom rungs of society), and a golden age willl begin(not just the US, the entire world). hopefully its in my lifetime

  • @petersz98 I agree that only educated persons have the moral justification to vote. That's the general idea of the Electoral College and Legislators. On that principle, I believe that debates for office and EC should have mandatory law questions. Ask Romney what Constitutional Amendment talks about the housing of soldiers and he might stutter a little. These debates are a joke. Almost all of them want to Executive Order the United States into chaos and bomb Iran into the ocean.

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  • I'm an extremely intelligent Republican Atheist, and I'm here to tell you that there are morons on all sides. Let's hope that the 55% of scientists are the freely charitable and socially-free kind of Democrats and not the Simpsons-quoting, genital-awed, immature, conclusion-jumping kind.

    You're absolutely right when you make the point that religion and science can't mix. I wish that "Scientist = Smart" were always true. It's not. Some people just do what they're told.

  • @teeterharris

    Anyone who is a Republican is a retard!

  • @petersz98 Your ignorance is showing.

  • @teeterharris

    Republicans should all be put into re-education camps to cure them of their stupidity and ignorance.

  • @petersz98 Jawohl, mein Kommandant!

  • @teeterharris

    The Republican re-education camps would teach things like:-

    Dinosaurs & humans never coexisted.

    The world is a lot more 6000 years old.

    Evolution is a proven fact.

    Cutting taxes does not increase revenues.

    How many of these do you accept?

  • @petersz98 Most of them. When you start talking about raising taxes, you're feeding special interest groups and mismanagement of existing programs, those of which Statists love. If you're being serious about the camps (which I can't believe anyone would be), you're talking about another instrument of force. Force is force, no matter what the intention. I'm an old school Republican, unlike the Neo-Cons.

  • @teeterharris

    I've had second thoughts putting people in re-education camps is a bit extreme! Instead when Americans register to vote they should have to pass a stupid test asking questions like the following:-

    Is North Korea an ally of the USA?

    Is Africa a country or a continent?

    Is evolution a proven fact?

    Is global warning a proven fact?

    Its expected 1 in 3 Americans (mostly Republicans) would fail the test and would not be allowed to vote until they get all the answers right. LOL

  • @petersz98 You are an Evotard, and that is clear, since there is no evolution found on this planet. There is only genetic degradation shown in ALL complex multicellular creatures. DNA is absolute evidence showing this is the only reality.

  • @GoodScienceForYou They are used all over the place where complex multi-variable optimization is required and completely destroy human intuition in finding efficient solutions. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that experiments refuting your assertion have been done. Destroying functional DNA on purpose and watching the original functionality evolve back over generations through simple random mutation and natural selection.

  • @Gnomefro This is not evolution. We know that when you have the healthy version of a gene, it will breed out the mutation. IF and only IF you have the healthy version to breed with. That is not evolution. It is what we need to do to survive as species. It will take about 1000 years to have somewhat healthy people if we stop all the "modern" mutagens.

  • @GoodScienceForYou If you needed "a healthy version of the gene to breed with", evolution would have zero explanatory power and never have made it as a scientific theory, nor would evolutionary algorithms in computer science be able to do their jobs, but they do, which means you're wrong. All that's required is that there are consequences to mutations that either improve power of replication of lessens it.

  • @Gnomefro I wonder how people like you can exist with all the conflicting religious emotionally driven bullshit in your head.

    Wake the fuck up and take a look around for the real world of absolute evidence.

    Humans are sick and dying. Every human has genetic diseases and tons of genetic weaknesses from teeth that rot out of your head to wearing glasses, back pain, and your knees rip apart from running.  And you think we are improving?

    It is difficult for me to realize how stupid you are.

  • @Gnomefro Here is the real world of obvious that you evotards avoid like the plague. You hate reality so you twist your minds around religious bullshit.

    33% of people in the US will die from cancer ages 15 to 64.

    The rate of invasive cancer incidents in children in 20 years has risen 126%.

    The death rate per day per population from cancer since 1948 with no treatments has risen over 20% with billions upon billions spent on cancer treatments. We are rapidly degrading, not evolving.

  • @GoodScienceForYou evolving does not go in a particular direction. learn what evolution means.

  • @peteymandem You are really silly. There are 6800 and more genetic diseases caused by deleterious mutations, because there is no other kind of mutation.

    READ TWICE: We know they are screwed up DNA coding because we can see the original fit condition in people who do not have the particular disease. Read AGAIN and again.

    That means there is only genetic degradation shown in ALL the absolutely irrefutable physical evidence.

    There is no evolution from simple towards complex.

  • @GoodScienceForYou "...caused by deleterious mutations, because there is no other kind of mutation..." Yet only yesterday you admitted that nylon-digesting bacteria are a mutant due to a frame shift mutation. Do you consider that ability deleterious?

    What about the ability of humans to digest lactose - that is due to a mutation as well. Do you consider that ability to be deleterious?

  • @Gnomefro 1 in 7 women have breast cancer. 1 in 15 people have heart disease. 1 in 10 have rare genetic diseases making the total NOT RARE. 1 in 12 people in the US have diabetes. All caused by genetic defects and no other reason. Humans are degrading rapidly from the crap we do to the planet and to ourselves and you would stick your head in your ass and deny this?

  • @GoodScienceForYou "1 in 10 have rare genetic diseases..." Not true For single gene mutations, the rate is 1 in 200 and for the other three types, the rate is lower.

    The American Diabetes Assn website says that genes are not enough to bring on diabetes - your claim that it is a genetic disease is bullshit, just like the rest of your claims.

  • @GoodScienceForYou It's just laughable that people can have problems with understanding the rather simple idea of a pseudo-random gradient descent optimization algorithm and make statements like "That's not evolution" when staring directly at a physical demonstration of the process - and believe they are intellectuals while doing so no less.

  • @Gnomefro A man made computer program based on belief is not evidence of evolution. DNA is absolute. There is only genetic loss shown in DNA. Evolution has no value in science at all, but to retard medical science and to allow humans to continue to destroy the planet and their own species.

    You are really quite poorly educated.

  • @Gnomefro There is no evidence whatsoever of evolution today in DNA studies. There are over 6000 genetic defects in humans from mutagens we create. There are no verifiable positive mutations anywhere shown.

    We know the sick genes because we can see the healthy ones.

    Repeat that a few hundred times to catch on to real science.

  • @GoodScienceForYou What these morons think are "mutations" are just traits that already exist.

    When you have a sick population with over 30% full of genetic defects that cause cancer, in order to heal this you stop the mutagens and allow the healthy genes to breed into the population. This is how it works.

    There is no magical time of evolution in the past. Genetics works the same now as always. What morons call "new magical mutations with out cause" are existing genes in the species NOT MAGIC!

  • @GSFY "What morons call "new magical mutations with out cause" are existing genes in the species..." Nobody but you calls beneficial mutations "magical" or "without cause." You do it because you are a creotard with little intelligence and a huge ego.

    Mutations DO occur and most are neutral. Some are beneficial due to environment. The ability to digest lactose is an example that you deny because you are dishonest and only care about your Jehovah's Witless beliefs

  • @GoodScienceForYou "There is no evidence whatsoever of evolution today in DNA studies. "

    Yes there is. You simply deny it because you are a religious kook.

  • @GoodScienceForYou You can even get a quick rundown of such experiments here on youtube. Search for "an increase in information".

  • @GoodScienceForYou "I know biology better than anyone who believes in evolution..." HAHAHAHA!!!

    You do not know much of anything about biology, much less know it "better than anyone." You are delusional, Jimbo. Quit relying on a diagnosis from the stone age, you brain is shot.

  • @GoodScienceForYou

    1) Populations evolve not individuals

    2) Most mutations just by how amino acids are coded for are almost by definition neutral because there's a vast amount of redundancy even more so when a mutation occurs in junk DNA, because of that redundant system I can have at least 3 billion mutations that will do absolutely nothing to me

    3) Why the fuck do you think natural selection is relevant? If you die you can't pass on your genes and the genes don't stay in the gene pool

  • @GoodScienceForYou

    Any one mutation "can" kill you, or it can do nothing or it can offer a benefit. Secondly we undergo over 100 mutations just while undergoing fertilization and dozens more as we age. Do you seriously not understand how codons code for resulting amino acids? If I change 100 base pairs that result in the same amino acid it won't do anything to me.

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  • @GoodScienceForYou

    How does this statement contradict my statement on your flawed logic in the slightest. All you did was make more claims and then make another claim of some super devolution without any supporting evidence. Not to mention making an absurd statistic that claims cancer death rates climb by 4380% every year over at least the last 63 years claiming a 275940% increase in cancer deaths

  • gairth21: I'm reposting your comment, GSFY falsely flagged it

    "Now that the human immune system is so full of genetic defects cancer is on the rise."

    So it's all because of the human immune system and not because of carcinogens or exposure to them, even though a few posts ago you said you accepted that mutagens and carcinogens existed. If you're going to be crazy stupid can you at least be consistent in your crazy stupid so you don't contradict yourself several times within the span of a day?

  • @GoodScienceForYou "It is because you are too stupid to understand the nature of cancer. " Look who is talking about stupid, you cannot even read. I REPOSTED GAIRTH21's comment, you blithering idiot, you know, the one that you falsely flagged as spam! Yet you reply to me, though it was his comment. Don't try and say you were replying to him, you would have done that in his original post instead of flagging it.