Rant re: California courts and Monsanto
G'day Team,
Back from hiatus to post this rant, first seen on my facebook (for any bot screening for plaigerism)
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The Californian courts decision to award $290M to a cancer patient because he used RoundUp is just another symptom of intellectual decay in the USA. Allowing court rooms to make independent decisions on scientific issues is just one more step towards allowing people to pick their own version of reality. It's the same thought process behind Trump telling people that reliable media is "Fake News", the same process anti-vaxxers use when they cherry pick data and the same process racist "free-speach" nationalists use to defend their Nazi-esque nonsense. The thought that if you throw enough lawyers and a big enough marketing team at something that you can set legal precedent in direct contrast to scientific consensus is horrifying. This is a decay of truth, in favour of ideology. What's more is this ideology comes primarily from the 'far-Left'... a side of politics that I would generally align my own ideologies with. That the ability to reason rationally, or even to just trust scientists, is so ubiquitously scarce is a disaster. If we continue down this path how long till the one objective aspect of modern society merely becomes a gun for hire in the clusterfuck that is our global political landscape.
Science is NOT a legal or political tool. Science is NOT up for debate in court rooms. Science is NOT a collection of facts you can cherry-pick to support your delusional ideologies. If you disagree with science you need to have a long hard look at your opinions and decide if theyre driven by reality or ideology... and if at the end of this reflecton you STILL disagree with science you need to fuck off and go live in a cave where you belong.
Thanks
-tfc
Definitely agree here. There just isn't sufficient evidence that roundup actually causes cancer.
It doesn't help that Monsanto is a large corporation and does dumb corporate stuff that makes it seem way worse than it actually is. I'm not saying Monsanto is good, but they're not evil either.
No i agree. I dont think this is about defending Monsanto as a company, but about the science that the case was based on
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