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Liberal Activist Says 'Cognitive' Brain Patterns Prevent Conservatives From Accepting Global Warming

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Posted by logi_cal 2010-03-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 (Liberal) Proof be damned I'M RIGHT.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-03-24 00:11|| 2010-03-24 00:11|| Front Page Top

#2 'Cognitive' Brain Patterns Prevent Conservatives From Accepting Global Warming

I wonder what happens if you have no cognitive brain patterns.

Posted by gorb 2010-03-24 00:31|| 2010-03-24 00:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Gorb is onto them. AGW is caused by lack of cognition. Lack of evidence does not refute causation. Rumsfeld would say something to that effect. I think.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-03-24 01:07|| 2010-03-24 01:07|| Front Page Top

#4 ION FREE DOMINION [Canada] > DROUGHT, REFUGEES, REVOLUTIONS, AND WARS - MILITARY LEADERS PREPARE FOR CLIMATE DOOMSDAY.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-03-24 01:27|| na 2010-03-24 01:27|| Front Page Top

#5 SAME > THE PROFESSOR'S ISLAMIST CALL TO BATTLE. agz US-Western Civilization. University of Michigan Prof Sherman jackson.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-03-24 01:30|| 2010-03-24 01:30|| Front Page Top

#6 The ability to do arithmethic?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-03-24 05:14|| 2010-03-24 05:14|| Front Page Top

#7 "Liberals say, 'Look seriously at the science and look at whether people are going to be harmed or not and whether the world is going to be harmed,'" Lakoff said.

That's not cognition. It's 'thinking' with one's emotions- which are apt to be ill-informed. The 'counsel of your fears' has an IQ which is about 40 points lower than your abstract reasoning. It does not pay attention to conservation-of-energy, it huddles in the corner and screams "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" This Lakoff clown is truly embarrassing.

Posted by Free Radical 2010-03-24 05:42|| 2010-03-24 05:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes, indeed it does, and I'm proud of it!

Main Entry: cog·ni·tive
Pronunciation: ˈkäg-nə-tiv
Function: adjective
Date: 1586
1 : of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (as thinking, reasoning, or remembering)
2 : based on or capable of being reduced to empirical factual knowledge

Posted by Bobby 2010-03-24 05:56|| 2010-03-24 05:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Lakoff, however, said that "99.999 percent of the science is final" on global warming...

I'd like to see the calc on this.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2010-03-24 06:17|| 2010-03-24 06:17|| Front Page Top

#10 The science is settled on "cognitive brain functions", too.

Posted by Albemarle Elmusosh6698 2010-03-24 06:41|| 2010-03-24 06:41|| Front Page Top

#11 If the strong father thing is so bad, how come guys raised by single mothers constitute way less than half the general population but nearly all of the prison population?

Posted by no mo uro 2010-03-24 06:43|| 2010-03-24 06:43|| Front Page Top

#12 Lakoff, however, said that "99.999 percent of the science is final" on global warming...

This 99.999 figure...does that include the admittedly corrupted data from East Anglia? Pachauri's melting glacier in the Himalayas that was originally sourced to a travel mag? Details, please....

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2010-03-24 06:48|| 2010-03-24 06:48|| Front Page Top

#13 Great idea for a whole series of books.

"A Magicians Guide to AGW - Making the Medieval Warming Period Disappear"

"A Computer Scientists Guide to Global Warming - Hiding the Decline in Just a Few Lines of Code"

Posted by DMFD 2010-03-24 07:05|| 2010-03-24 07:05|| Front Page Top

#14 DMFD has the right idea.

Let me suggest:

"A Short Guide to Establishing Public Policy - You Don't Need No Stinkin' Data"

subtitle: "Just Making It Up as We Go Along"

Posted by Slats Thrasing6982 2010-03-24 07:27|| 2010-03-24 07:27|| Front Page Top

#15 Numbers hurt. I'll go back to drooling in the corner.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2010-03-24 08:16|| 2010-03-24 08:16|| Front Page Top

#16 --I'm too stoopid to be 'propagandized'.

Posted by Tom--Pa 2010-03-24 08:21|| 2010-03-24 08:21|| Front Page Top

#17 What the prof is saying in a nutshell: "Turn off your brain and you will accept global warming." Ahem professor it seems that you have turned yours off already! :-P

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2010-03-24 08:50|| 2010-03-24 08:50|| Front Page Top

#18 Liberals, on the other hand,have not discernible brain pattern whatsoever.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-03-24 08:56|| 2010-03-24 08:56|| Front Page Top

#19 And a mental disorder prevents liberals from forming any logical thought patterns. Maybe it is the dope.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-03-24 09:41|| 2010-03-24 09:41|| Front Page Top

#20 What's next from this boob, Phrenology?

Posted by OldSpook 2010-03-24 10:33|| 2010-03-24 10:33|| Front Page Top

#21 Good point, OS, except that you have to realize that Phrenology is based on stronger science than AGW, since bumps on the head actually exist.

Posted by Squinty Grugum6783 2010-03-24 10:46|| 2010-03-24 10:46|| Front Page Top

#22 You fools! There's grant money at stake here!

Posted by Jefferson 2010-03-24 11:01|| 2010-03-24 11:01|| Front Page Top

#23 #22 You fools! There's grant money at stake here!
Posted by: Jefferson 2010-03-24 11:01

Grant money, speaking fees, business scams, etc. it's ALL about the money.

Posted by WolfDog 2010-03-24 11:33|| 2010-03-24 11:33|| Front Page Top

#24 What an amusing little article. As Dr. Steve notes, all those blithering about conservative cognitive lacks in processing information about climate change claims are in lovely "soft science" fields. The one person quoted in this story who agrees with the so-called Conservative position is actually an acknowledged expert in the field under discussion... in other words the only one in the group of interviewees qualified to have an opinion on the subject.

Posted by trailing wife on the other computer 2010-03-24 16:30|| 2010-03-24 16:30|| Front Page Top

#25 This is all cute and fun. NOT!!!! This is extremely dangerous. Now the right is not just another opinion in America, the right is sick, objectified, damaged and defected like a retarded person. This thought now removes the right from the realm of rational thinkers, to that of a drooling man needing to be hospitalized or worse yet REPROGRAMMED! What neededs to happen to this guy is to ask him his plan to help the right get better. Then we can all be horrified at his end game...

Posted by 49 Pan 2010-03-24 18:22|| 2010-03-24 18:22|| Front Page Top

#26 No worries Pan. The left already has "sensitivity classes" for people who are not PC about certain PC things. Soon there will be indoctrination camps. If that doesn't help, then there will be concentration camps.

Posted by wt 2010-03-24 18:33|| 2010-03-24 18:33|| Front Page Top

#27 Perhaps they will give North Korea the 'reeducation Center' contracts...

They seem to have lots of experience int he workers paradise.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-03-24 18:39|| 2010-03-24 18:39|| Front Page Top

#28 I think John Ray spent a career debunking these sorts of ideas. I read enough of his papers not bother to with these pseudo-experts' opinions anymore.

Posted by Fester Thaiger8930 2010-03-24 20:27|| 2010-03-24 20:27|| Front Page Top

#29 "Proponents of human-caused global warming claim that "cognitive" brain function prevents conservatives from accepting the science that says "climate change" is an imminent threat to planet Earth and its inhabitants."

Because we know it's only logical that we are controlling the weather with the tail pipes on our cars.

Posted by newc 2010-03-24 20:57|| 2010-03-24 20:57|| Front Page Top

#30 professor of cognitive science and linguistics at the University of California-Berkeley and author of the book "The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics,"

Which makes him a Chomskian disciple. And Chomsky invented a new 'science' where all evidence in fact supports your theory, after appropriate manipulations and intellectual gymnastics.

Sound familiar.

The Global Warmists followed Chomsky's model of so called science.

Posted by phil_b 2010-03-24 23:41|| 2010-03-24 23:41|| Front Page Top

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