Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Big Think" channel.

  1. Why is Ben Stiller trying to pretend he is a philosopher?
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  2. My only problem with this is that scientists really do not understand how much they know and how much they don't know about DNA in terms of data and instructions.
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  3.  @klumpytheklown3798  I never really thought about or realized much about genetic engineering until I read the book "Altered Genes, Twisted Truth" about how corrupt the industry is and how much the rules are bent to allow them to experiment with their products on people. Part of that book Drucker the author talks about there being no regulation of GMO foods, and how some years ago scientists discover a whole new system in DNA they didn't understand, thought they have been doing their primitive GMO shotgunning for decades. We are their guinea pigs.
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  4. This seems to presume that "Success" has the same meaning, and that every "successful" person gets there in some similar way or has similar qualities. That makes a kind of logical sense as a hypothesis, we might think that as a first order approximation, but defining it, measuring it and proving it seems to make more money for people writing books and giving lectures than it does make sense or teach others how to be successful. Is there a limited pie of success, that is if some succeed, then do others have to fail, so then perhaps in many cases cheating has a lot to do with it? Surely at least some.
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  5. You are lucky to have the luxury of feeling "creatively disconnected" because most people live life not having enough money, time, brains to reflect on their lives. This is a very interesting idea, because as for what I already said most people are just ignored. Unbelievable that after so many thousands of years of consciousness and civilization the world is in the state its in, all we have to do is listen.
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  6. 2:35 -- " Justice is what love looks like in public " .... brilliant. Does Cornell say this is a quote by Martin, as in Martin Luther King? When I Google that phrase it comes up as being by himself. “Justice is what love looks like in public, just like tenderness is what love feels like in private,” said Dr. Cornel West
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  7. Mystery Yoghurt Whenever a post is made like this, no matter how thoughtful of fact based it is, the nuts show up and start to bash socialists ... and all they are is paid rabble to make us think there are more of them than 1%.
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  8.  @nedisawegoyogya  It is nothing like Bytecodes. We invented computers and apps and byte codes, there is no meaning in them other than what we gave them, and they can be deciphered totally. That is not true with DNA at all. They really do not know what they are doing with DNA. Read Altered Genes, Twisted Truth by Steven Druker and find out how nice it is to know what you are talking about.
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  9.  @nedisawegoyogya  Your comment does not sound like it. But if you had you'd be the first to acknowledge that new revelations are discovered all the time about DNA and cell biology that obsoletes old information.
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  10. Yt - why do i have to see another commercial just because i put this video on hold and came back to it later ... f-you
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  11. ***** This claim that everything has failed but your own pet fantastic ideas is fucking lame, I hear it every day in these forums for years and it means nothing. Less state intervention in a state like Iran ... sure, great. In the US is merely means we are on our way to becoming like Iran because the power of the people and the rights of the people are trampled on by money and political power. Your model is full of crap.
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  12. ***** Nationalism is not like religion, and without it all we would have left is money-ism, and weapon-ism. You crackpot Libertarians ought to really think about the nutso things you say.
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  13. Amazing how George Takei is an expert at everything. So what if the illegal immigration rate has gone down by half, if the murder rate went down by half would he say we should stop worrying about murders? Why is it that people like George don't seem to be able to see that illegal immigration is a problem and not a good thing? What would happen if he went over to Mexico without the proper papers or passport? They'd put him in a Mexican jail and extort him for every penny he had. The rate of immigration is not relevant to anything like a stereotype. Somehow Takei is accepted as a spokesperson for the Liberals, and I think it is not really because he is, but because someone in the right-wing media thinks they can make Liberals so foolish looking when they think they have to agree with and back George. I don't mind George, he was great as Sulu and he can really insult Shatner pretty fiercely, but so what, really?
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  14. This guy is good ... so much more humble and easier to listen to than the know-it-all Neil DeGrasse-Tyson. I wonder what Bill Nye's take is on GMOs?
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  15. 2:11 - "If every scientist said I'm not going to believe what anybody else says until I do it myself, scientists would be at least a century behind ... " That's a ridiculously hyperbolic comment. A lot of science in the social sciences has been questioned and cannot be recreated. There is a lot of reason to question science. Scientists ... the human factor, the ego, the money, the fame, etc. This video should be called "The Big Whine". So, when Trump ( not a scientist ) says he will create a better health care system than Obama, it will be better, and cheaper, and cover everyone ... tentatively accept that ... excepting that we have to take action and vote, we cannot accept what people, even scientists say, especially on things that are political ... and thanks to Republicans - everything is political and weaponized these days. I'm being a little sarcastic, but the point being that these are economic and political questions, and questions of power. If I am a Koch Brother, I don't want anyone encroaching on my corporation telling me what I have to do ... which is curious that the Koch Brothers funded Muller by the way. Also ... when there is a doubt, there must be validation of the data and process ... what this guy is claiming is that Muller somehow was in error to collect other famous scientists and look at the data when there is a dispute and review it ... that he should have accepted other scientists work without question. Needless to say, I think this guy, Powell, is totally wrong about science.
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  16. Information works great if you have a scientific objective frame of mind.  In the US they try to keep people continually hysterical and emotional precisely so they will not be able to think.  Our society is dysfunctional. People have to be trained like Pavlov's dogs to get emotional and angry at the mere mention of a subject so they will not be open to logic and facts ... and that is what right-wing media does.
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  17. moot for god's sake!
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  18. >> eventually we need to move out to other solar systems in other galaxies. The nearest galaxy is Canis Major and it is 25,000 light years from Earth.  That means it would take 25,000 years to reach if we could go the speed of light.  Since we do not move anywhere close to the speed of light - the fastest thing we can reach today is 25 miles per second ... which is 7451 times slower than light. So if we could make a ship to go to the closest galaxy and we could get that ship up to 25 miles per second it would take 25,000 * 7451 = 186 thousand years to make that trip. I think this guy has been watching too many Science Fiction movies.  We are talking about transit times much longer than the number of years human beings have existed. And what for ... so we can screw us and destroy life all over the galaxy as we have done on Earth?  I think maybe we should spend a little time growing up and not kill ourselves and our planet off first.
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  19. kokofan50 Your claims are full of holes. The first thing is that while you may get a drive that will get the maximum speed up to something substantial, that would be the maximum speed, not the average speed. A ship would be accelerating for half the trip, and then decelerating for the other half. In the darkness of interstellar space a solar sail is not going to help much by the way. Then there is the fact that we really do not know what is out there between solar systems of galaxies, and at a high speed like that even dust could destroy a ship. I think you max speed of 10% the speed of light is a fantasy for a large generation ship. Considering that our fastest thing is not even .02% of the speed of light, speculating about 10% is mere folly.
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  20. A lot of people who pull the triggers of guns don't count as human beings to me. Good point about their being a guard in every bank, but nothing in our schools.
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  21. The ancient Spartans were idiots, and just because a society is good at war does not make it a good society. For a while the Nazis were pretty good at war ... doesn't make them great. The English society is greater today than it was in the middle of the British Empire.
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  22. Ha, funny. The liability would be on the manufacturer, as a defective product. But, since that is too hard a puzzle to figure out, it will be a very very long time until robots with the power to hurt anyone will be loosed in public.
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  23. The questioner is confusing the purpose of the species with the purpose of the individual members of that species. Another confusions it that gays do not procreate. The first thing to consider is that most of what makes human beings human today is outside or our bodies and external to our genes. It is ideas, and social interactions. The things that really make the human race -- which, by the way, we have not really yet begun to exploit are the ideas in books and our external memory. Much of our species has been influenced by homosexuals. Businesses, inventions, ideas, memes, etc. Their genes might not continue, and that is only a guess - because many homosexuals have regular marriages and procreate. but their ideas, personalities and memes can.
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  24. Uh, I think this is just a cognitive thing. The issue of the mentally ill, covering all mental illness is too broad and complicated. So, many people just pivot and perceive the problem as, if someone does something, or looks dangerous they are mentally ill, by definition. Other people who are normal or at least don't stand out so much are ignored. This is a little like racism, there is dangerous racism, like people bombing churches and the like, and there is just racial behavior, a race joke, or off-color remark or even an insult that may bother and hurt people's feelings but are not really racism in the way it was historically defined in America - slavery, KK, discrimination, segregation, etc. The bottom line is that the people who have to pay for this all, the rich and the corporations do not want their money taken to do anything about it because it does not affect them, so nothing happens and the waters are muddied.
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  25. Rand Paul thinks Iraq was more stable under Saddam Hussein just ignores its affect on the region to concentrate on the fact that Iraq was terrorized by its own government ... what is this guy thinking?
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  26. Sand I think in the long term the US intervention was much better than waiting and having things get worse and worse over time and more difficult to change ... and all bets off if Saddam would have had nuclear weapons. Yeah, people die in war, and thankfully it was more of them and less of us.
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  27. Sand Not to mention the false lives existing in terror by the Iraqi secret police and Saddam's sons terrorizing anyone they came in contact with and raping at random all over the countryside. I never get the logic that said things were better under Saddam Hussein.
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  28. mrsuns10 Define stability and qualify your statement. There is a lot more to a country than stability ... if the quality of life is not good, you have no freedom of liberty, what matters if that misery is stabilized? Assad needs to go. A new and better stability will form.
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  29. +Matt Weismiller Yeah, that part is good, but what really annoys the shit out of me is the way to gets to talking about comparing US and Iranian elections ... as a way to thumb his nose at the US. There is a lot of complain about the US, but we are not murdering people for saying certain things, or having certain religious beliefs, and that is just stupid of Chomsky ... or maybe not ... maybe he is just doing his job being part of the structure that hobbles people's minds in a different way. Notice how little Chomsky has said about Bernie Sanders ... when one would think that someone of Chomsky's self-righteous purity would at least notice that Bernie has a huge reformist agenda that encompasses much of what Chomsky criticizes ... yet he remains aloof ... and think about why. Because this guy Chomsky is NO ACTIVIST, he is just the celebrity of the Left, and probably a CIA point of observation to identify suspected Leftists who may be trouble at some point.
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  30. Rubio ... coherent?  I've never noticed it. Rand Paul's foreign policy may be coherent, but his overall world view is not. Nor is just about any Republican.  Trump may be an exception, if you can take him seriously, but he is such a polarizing, dictatorial figure I think most people should be afraid to risk the country's stability to find out.
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  31. +GoDrex That's because with most of the men that have ever lived on this planet, it may not have ever mattered.
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  32. Broseph Stalin They realize all that ... maybe in the near future they will realize that talking from the gutter is not so attractive.
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  33. Brilliant guy - can't put his tie on straight?
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  34. Gee thanks for NOT explaining that.
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  35. There is the University, and then there is the educated, professional class ... and I think he is conflating the two.  And besides, now Universities such as the University of Chicago economics are virtual training grounds for the worst conservative theories that funnel fascist trainees into Goldman-Sachs and other financial institutions.  This is not quite what he is trying to say ... we are returning to the feudal or aristocrat ages, and the dark ages ... only for the masses that the aristocrats do not want to have education.
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  36. So, instead of questioning Muller, Powell should shut up and get on the to the next step of global warming ... the models. That is the hardest part. It seems like no one has modeled global warming very well, or predicted -- that's what science should be for - prediction -- of what we are going to be going through over time given that we are still generating more and more CO2? I don't hear these scientists being reasonable about nuclear power ... because that bumps up against their own egos and feelings about nuclear ... but that equation is simple. We continue to need a vastly increasing level of electrical power, and to do that with wind and solar cannot happen - or let's say will not happen. So we either destroy the whole planet with CO2 and runaway global warming, or we build nuclear plants like mad and take the chance that every 20-40 years we will have a large localized disaster like Chernobyl or Fukushima. Except that we have to realize that nuclear engineering has come a long way and will get better and cheaper. This should be pushed relentlessly in the media, and the nuclear plants explained so people are not terrified by it. In CA we shut down 20% of our cleanest energy- and no are creating more CO2 than ever. What kind of sense do this make? None at all.
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  37. That "think" did not seem so "big"
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  38. I think the understanding is almost less of a problem than absorbing that information and understanding really - what the hell we are as "beings". We all have so many foolish notions that have snuck into our brains by religion, or school even, or movies. It's amazing how no human society has really ever saved itself from serious collapse, and the way we are handling the environment and climate change we are still behaving on the macro level like an ant hill, we are not using our brains at all.
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  39. The "elite" that he talks about are the ones who want to capture legislation, regulation, education ... bascially everything and cut everyone off from it by money - they keep a record of your political leanings from when you were a kid, and then over time professors are made to push out the Liberals and promote the Conservatives..... is it any wonder that that unconscious perceptions develops into a distrust of expertise?
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  40. Cornell, you tell it like it is, but here's my impression ... Obama's policy team is the CIA as far as I am concerned. He used blacks and Wright to culture a leftist image in order to get the left elected, at just the right time. The power structure in the US is not going to bow to "pressure", when we have a leader who is programmed to be President by the powers that be so cleverly.
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  41. 1:25 - WE could learn from the cast study Muller ... that he should have TRUSTED the other scientists Wow, I think you really have it wrong. Today, the alimighty dollar rules, and most people, even scientists, and for good reason, do not trust a lot of what is presented to us as science. And then we have to remember two other things. One is that before there was global warming there was a big thing about global cooling about a decade before. The other is that the ... I forget the acronym IPCC or something, but their report and some emails raised some suspicions with people that they were "cherry-picking" data because they left some whole data sets out, did not mention it in their report. They had reasons for doing this, but that is not what you are supposed to do in China. So, the whole issue has become so politicized at the same time that people who don't know anything about the issue, and sometimes less about science all feel free to make whatever comments they like. I think Muller did a great service here, and in terms of objectivity and integrity he has my provisional trust and vote for getting it right. The connection of the Earths temperature to the CO2 signal cannot be ignored. The reason for this comment is that I think you got it wrong when you suggested that anyone should trust the scientists, or even trust in science. The history of science is full of failings of human beings. Like following the law, following the so-called rules of science are not something you can trust people with ... sadly. Also, science doesn't work if people are going to choose to be offended or get emotional on these issues. You have your reasons for thinking what you are thinking, but science works on people being able to interpret or add something to other people's work and data. Getting offended is something you might as well do at the whole of humanity, don't just blame Muller.
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  42.  @C_R_O_M________  The truth is in the data- not the scientists you ditship.
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  43. ​ @C_R_O_M________  Seriously, you are slanted in your outlook from when you called names on Muller ... "climate alarmist". That is typical troll language and lies. What Muller proved was that global warming was generated by human activity. He held off on talking about climate change, but not 15 years later that fact is that the heat we have now is changed the Earth's albedo, melting ice leaving nowhere for that excess heat to go, and releasing more carbon in the permafrost, it also causes more wildfire activity which puts even more CO2 into the atmosphere. If there was another interpretation of it I'd like to hear what it is.
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  44.  @C_R_O_M________  I think you didn't even listen to what Muller said, and certainly did not look at the data. That just means you are a troll with an agenda other than science trying to distort the science. If you are working theoretically it may be hard to prove a causal relationship, but that is typical BS from the tobacco-cancer deniers too. The fact is look at what he said - the data track perfectly, with every change in CO2 in the atmosphere caused by human generated CO2. He has the data, and he has the curved that fit the data. There is one interpretation. You are like arguing the a gunshot victim who died didn't die of the gunshot but died of the flu - denying what it right in front of your eyes. You are a right-wing fanatic patrolling the discussion to try to manipulate science, not do it. All you have it raising questions that have no point or no reason. Probably think the Covid-19 vaccine will kill you too, huh? Good ... go to the Trump rallies and breath deep.
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  45. obama has a lot of intelligence, but he has made deals and got himself into something that he has no idea how to succeed in. he talks about clean coal with a straight face and talks about how growing corn in the midwest will help us with energy, and that means he has a psychopaths ability to lie. There is no way he has enough scientific knowlege or technical understanding about anything, so he was backed and fronted to run for President for someone else's purposes.
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  46.  @nedisawegoyogya  Thanks, you made my point for me. You also proved your ignorance on the GMO food issue ... 8 Although the causal link between Showa Denko’s LT and the epidemic has been questioned by some researchers (e.g., Shapiro, S., “Epidemiologic studies of the association of L-tryptophan with the eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome: a critique,” J Rheumatol Suppl [Oct. 1996]: 44-59), the link has been rmly established by published research conducted not only at the Center for Disease Control (CDC), but at the Mayo clinic and other respected institutions. e strength of the connection is attested by CDC scientists who have written: “ ese studies constitute overwhelming evidence that the cause of the EMS epidemic was ingestion of L-tryptophan produced by Showa Denko,” (emphasis added), e Lancet 343 (April 23, 1994): 1037.
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  47.  @ivanleon6164  Flapping your ignorant gum for exercise ... good for you!
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  48. Prime age males not participating in the labor force? This bald a-hole is a moron. The "company" line is that CEOs and capitalists will not participate in the economy via investment if they do not get huge socialized guaranteed profits and minimum taxes, but when they do we get economic meltdown. Wonder why working people do not want to participate in the labor force if because the labor force these days is like a work camp, work harder for less money, die slower, and who cares.
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  49. Even Muller's study did not hold back the Trumpies ... so I would say the biggest problem with science is the money that controls it, and the political system that is bought by the money that controls it. I am sure you had a different mindset about this in 2012 or before Muller. Someone should have sent Trump and others his books, Physics For Future Presidents, and Energy For Future Presidents .. they are excellent. All Repubicans should have read those books, and you better start realizing that Republicans are the threat to science and the government and the people - because I don't believe anyone is going to commission a peer-reviewed study on the political system - though that might be just exactly what needs to happen.
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  50. @vooooom It does not matter who is to blame, if the FACT is that it takes men off focus and the unit efficiency is weaker, no matter who is at fault, if there is even a fault, because is it a fault to have something you cannot change about yourself, then that FACT has to be dealt with objectively. I like the speaker's honesty whether I agree or not. The problem is that we have a lot of ideas implanted into us that feel good, but that may or may not be true about senstive things???
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