How do scientists cope with ignorant Americans?

[Anonymous No.2499576]

So how do scientists deal with ignorant Americans?

Here's an example of Bill O'Reilly claiming God must exist because the Earth is the only planet with a moon; and he's really confident about this.

This is after he claimed God must exist because the ocean has tides (fucking tides, how do they work?). However, when it was explained "The moon creates the tides" he covered up his dumbfuckery with "Only the Earth has a moon, thus Jesus".

This is a man with a national platform. He has millions of viewers and listeners yet this dumbass stream of thought won't discredit him in the slightest.

How the hell does a scientist expect to educate, get funding from and work amoung these dumb ass Americans?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyHzhtARf8M

and

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2011/02/bill-oreillys-latest-faux-science-lesson-the
-other-planets-dont-really-have-any-moons.html

Also, RAGE @ 0:30

>So fucking stupid and SO confident.

[Anonymous No.2499590]

Yeah... but whatever. You shouldn't get mad OP. Guy is a total disgrace and no one will change him.

[Anonymous No.2499600]

We tolerate it, and I actually support it, because it means less people go into science, and that means that us scientists deal with less competition and higher pay.

[Anonymous No.2499604]

:O
but the world is not america

[Anonymous No.2499602]

ignore them

[Anonymous No.2499608]

>>2499590
Who wants to change him? I'm just saying he has more ears listeningto him than any scientist in the whole nation.

Also, he constantly uses his show to "discredit" science like some old hillbilly grandmother on her porch babbling about the end of days.

And people listen to him. People don't think evolution is real, or it's just an opinion because of him.

[Anonymous No.2499613]

>>2499600
But everything goes in a slower process. Have fun not going to the space in your lifetime.

We could easily go to the space with low costs near 2040, and people like O'Reilly delay this shit.

I don't want this to happen on 2060, I'll dead by then.

[Anonymous No.2499615]

>How the hell does a scientist expect to educate, get funding from and work amoung these dumb ass Americans?

It's not impossible, but, close enough. The majority of us [Americans] tend to be stubborn-as-fuck when it comes to religion.

[Anonymous No.2499619]

>>2499576

Bill O'Reily is a troll. You have been trolled.

[Anonymous No.2499620]

>>2499602
that's like a rape concilor telling that to a rapist. . . during the rape.

[Anonymous No.2499630]

He just reflects what the aged and uneducated third of the population believes already.

there's little point in trying to change them, religion is the pact by which they agree to be exploited. It's the inequalities that move things.

[Anonymous No.2499633]

>>2499600
good luck. you're cutting off your nose in spite of your face.

don't you realize you're an "intelligent design classes in elementary school" away from scientists being burned as witches in America?

[Anonymous No.2499634]

ITT: pinheads who don't know where it came from.

Heres a clue. It starts with J and rhymes with "cheeses"

[Anonymous No.2499639]

>>2499613
Get over your space fetish, The economics aren't there, and never will be long range space travel.

>But we can mine...
Yes we can, but Its still a bazillion fucking times
cheaper to do that on earth without having to create an artificial economy in a place that is completely on its own.

Personally, I'll take the money and a guaranteed job rather than compete for one by needing to get ever higher qualifications for the same type of job in science.

Yes, you heard this from a scientist, what I said is basically "fuck scientific advancement" if it interferes with my ability to live a decent life.

[Anonymous No.2499660]

>>2499633
Oh please, even the craziest creationist wouldn't touch the establishment that I work in, as it gives them the reason to be haughty as Americans in comparison to the rest of the world.

Fortunately, I plan on working in defense, and not in touchy fields like biological research, and consequently, I would like to have as few of people as possible so that I can become a senior scientist with just a PhD, not a post-doc, thank you very much.

[Anonymous No.2499669]

You can't expect much of republicans...

[Anonymous No.2499680]

>>2499669
>You can't expect much of Americans...
ftfy

[Anonymous No.2499696]

He's sort of right...

We know WHAT gravity and how it effects us, but we don't know how it came to exist or even what fundamentally makes it operate. Obviously it's not a deity, and that's were bill-o goes full retard but up until that conclusion he sort of has a point.

[Anonymous No.2499707]

>>2499639
I was just glancing through the boards, but I decided to stop by and tell you this:

You're a fucking cunt.

[Anonymous No.2499709]

>and SO confident
That's what pisses me off the most. He's absolutely fucking dead wrong on every single fucking thing that comes out of his mouth, and yet he has that smug, shit eating grin on his face saying "I'm right and no one can ever prove me wrong!".
I just want to rip his ignorant, lying, hypocritical, smug face off and smash a school textbook into his skull. He really is the lowest kind of scumbag piece of shit there is.
Yes, I mad as hell.

[Anonymous No.2499716]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jNGGNomLx_c#t=113s

>America

[Anonymous No.2499721]

Bill O'Reilly is not a dumb man.

He simply peddles bullshit and propaganda for a living.

[Anonymous No.2499724]

>>2499709
he's right about some things

like he said ireland was a nice place to visit

[Anonymous No.2499725]

>>2499716

Im an Amerifag and this makes me a verrrrrryyyyy sadddddd panda. Maybe I'll move once I get my degree.

[Anonymous No.2499726]

>>2499696
>implying Bill is being cautious with facts and data while being informed and introspective on novel ideas.
>implying Bill is relative to a esteemed scientist in his feild and not literally saying "Jesus did it"

[Anonymous No.2499736]

love how you retarded libs get all worked up over bill o'reilly and sarah palin; they troll you so hard and laugh all the way to the bank

[Anonymous No.2499738]

>>2499709

[Anonymous No.2499739]

>>2499738

he already said that you moron

[Anonymous No.2499746]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE_OehRLH3s

[Anonymous No.2499749]

I will tell you why Bill is so confident. He knows that, even though science can explain how:
The moon got there,
The sun got there,
The tides go in and out,
and how life formed,
he knows he can just argue backwards until he gets to the Big Bang. This being the arguably least substantial (or least widely viewed by layman as substantial) scientific principal so far, he knows that he can seemingly win the argument by pointing out the flaws in the Big Bang theory.

Say what you will about O'Reilly, but he is one devious sonofabitch.

[Anonymous No.2499757]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z-OLG0KyR4

By now creationists should be ashamed of being creationists

[Anonymous No.2499803]

>god must exist becaus the Earth is the only planet with a moon
>confident in his answer
lol'd heartily. thanks, OP.

[Anonymous No.2499799]

>>2499757

and you should be ashamed of being a heathen scientist who is too blind and too stupid to see the evidence of god all around him.

[Anonymous No.2499801]

>>2499757
DERP

[Anonymous No.2499809]

>god must exist because the Earth is the only planet with a moon
>confident in his answer
lol'd heartily. thanks, OP.

[Anonymous No.2499855]

thanks OP this is awesome!

fucking tides!

[Anonymous No.2499903]

>>2499639

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

[Anonymous No.2499925]

Seriously I think you guys are blowing this out of proportion. Bill is trying to give the "fine tuning" argument. He appears tired, and doesnt do a good job of presenting it, but hes not the ignoramus your making him out to be.

[Anonymous No.2499933]

Hi I'm OP and even though I live in a country where people are murdered for their sneakers and political corruption is rampant I am only concerned about what happens in America.

I only visit American websites and know more about the US Government than the government of my own country.

I spend more time speaking with Americans online about their problems than I do with my own countrymen about our own.

[Anonymous No.2499965]

America's chief export is stupid people what we as a country need to do is try and reach new clients so that we can get more stupid people to more places we're currently in negotiations with the government of papua new guinea and we hope to start importing stupid people to them by next fiscal quarter if all goes according to plan we may have as many as 75% of our stupid population being moved daily to the rest of the world and when that happens those stupid people will be their problem to deal with.
It's the american way

[Anonymous No.2501479]

>>2499855
Fucking tides and magnets!