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Author Topic:   Terrible news. Just terrible. Urgent issue (antibiotic resistant bacteria hits USA!)
Genomicus
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Message 6 of 42 (785095)
05-27-2016 5:22 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by LamarkNewAge
05-27-2016 3:49 PM


It made me even sicker on my stomach than I usually am when thinking about this issue. Alex Jones and Ralph Nader have been about the only ones talking about this one that I can think of.
It's very well-known among medical and science professionals. It's been picked up by the news, but obviously it's not going to be talked about as much as so-called riots at a Trump rally because little microbes don't bring in ad revenue as much as easier to understand, sensational journalism.
Alex Jones is a certified wacko and bigot who endorses articles on his website like "Does Homosexual Marriage Signal America's Final Undoing?" So I'm not sure why you're looking to Alex Jones as some kind of credible persona.
Lets take bets on which state will suffer the first casualty.
Wut?
Then which state will loose its first dozen lives to the bacteria.
"To the bacteria." Do you know the biology of this or not? Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have been around for a long time, and have claimed U.S. lives for a long time.
And, tbh, your whole post smells of sensationalism instead of reflecting a thorough understanding of the biology and nature of the threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

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Genomicus
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Message 11 of 42 (785127)
05-28-2016 6:18 AM
Reply to: Message 7 by Faith
05-28-2016 12:45 AM


Re: Yup, us wackos and bigots see some heavy stuff coming
That IS an article from Scientific American, which is probably not just getting around to noticing the problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It's about a "superbug," something they consider to be more threatening than the usual.
Yes. When I said LamarckNewAge's post smells of sensationalism, I was referring to the particular language used in the OP.
E.g.:
"It made me even sicker on my stomach than I usually am when thinking about this issue."
"where Nader was interviewed in Crawford talking about the REAL biological issues we should fear and ones that could indeed terminate our lives (unlike the lame Iraqi weapons the media was buzzing about 24/7 for over a decade up to the circa 2005 present)"
"Come to think of it, maybe our asshole congress (and media, culture, population, etc.)..."
You get the point. LamarckNewAge has a very idiosyncratic manner of dialogue which makes it hard to take her/him/it seriously.
Persecution of Christians? Going on everywhere. Email today about a woman in India who recently lost her job because of her Christian faith, yesterday heard an interview with an American man who lost his job with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for offering a co-worker the loan of a DVD about Intelligent Design.
I wouldn't trust that the Intelligent Design Movement is giving you accurate details. I was invited by William Dembski in 2010 to join his secretive email list/email discussion group, which basically had all the major stars of the Intelligent Design Movement (Mike Behe, Paul Nelson, Casey Luskin, etc., as well as that JPL fellow you're referring to). I added some of my own input to the discussion group, but after some tension I ended up defecting because (1) basically 60% of the discussion revolved around critiquing the modern evolutionary synthesis, instead of proposing ID hypotheses which could be used in day-to-day scientific research, (2) and 30% of the discussion consisted of railing against the "lefties" and "Marxists" and global warming, and (3) there was always this underlying current of YECism in the discussion. I quickly discovered that this wasn't exactly an intellectually honest group, as there was clear religious bias among the group, despite the Intelligent Design Movement's public face of not having any religious goals.
Anyways, the point of all of this is that you're likely not getting the whole story from the Intelligent Design Movement people.
And while I'm sorry that Christians are persecuted for their religious faith, this doesn't prove much except that patriarchic institutions have a habit of creating violence.
From his nom de plume I gather LamarkNewAge wouldn't be open to the recommendation of a return to Biblical Christianity to save the nation, and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't, along with the majority here.
Well, if you must know, I rather doubt that a return to a book written either by (a) a band of women-hating psychopaths, or (b) a psychopath in the sky will do much to improve the human condition.
Edited by Genomicus, : No reason given.

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