Chris Blackmore Oh, it won't. But what it will do is stop things becoming a thousand times worse than they are now. At least currently there is some level of accountability and the public are free to check what the government says with what the science says.
Chris Blackmore By making it clear that there's enough people watching them do their dirty work. Assuming there's enough signatures, and assuming the arseholes care. I have previously remarked that in the last 5-10 years it seems the arseholes in charge seem to be constantly pushing the "how much outrageously corrupt bullcrap can I get away with?" boundary with the apparent goal of seeing when there's actual consequences. To their (and my) amazement, they mostly haven't found that limit.
Indeed, I'm not sure what the solution is to mitigate bullshitting (which, as per the recent FT article, is now a legitimate technical term). But I'm quite certain that if cherry-picking and twisting evidence are bad, then ignoring the evidence completely is way, way worse.
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Signed, obviously. But how will it stop ignorant imbeciles doing what they bloody well feel like?
ReplyDeleteChris Blackmore Oh, it won't. But what it will do is stop things becoming a thousand times worse than they are now. At least currently there is some level of accountability and the public are free to check what the government says with what the science says.
ReplyDeleteChris Blackmore By making it clear that there's enough people watching them do their dirty work. Assuming there's enough signatures, and assuming the arseholes care.
ReplyDeleteI have previously remarked that in the last 5-10 years it seems the arseholes in charge seem to be constantly pushing the "how much outrageously corrupt bullcrap can I get away with?" boundary with the apparent goal of seeing when there's actual consequences. To their (and my) amazement, they mostly haven't found that limit.
Signed - and I concur with Chris Blackmore
ReplyDelete(but to do nowt is to let them win by default)
Indeed, I'm not sure what the solution is to mitigate bullshitting (which, as per the recent FT article, is now a legitimate technical term). But I'm quite certain that if cherry-picking and twisting evidence are bad, then ignoring the evidence completely is way, way worse.
ReplyDeleteRhys Taylor Nearly as bad as saying the evidence proves the opposite, the Tory tactic.
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