Comments on Science for the Masses

But why did Darwin make oranges orange, rather than blue or red.

And if orange is a good color on an orange, why isn't a copied by a lot of other nature-made stuff?

Or is "orange orange" really an unnatural, evil corporate branding ploy?

Is that the Welsh version of the Communist Manifesto? Cool. SFAOK and Charles Mudede OK!

Haha! Nietzsche said it so it must be so insightful! Now that I'm back in Austin again, I'm unsubscribing the Stranger from my RSS feeds because I'm tired of Charles' shit.

The Star Wars thing was, quite possibly, one of the stupidest things I've ever had the misfortune of reading, and after hearing him in a few interviews I've cemented my belief that he's an unscientific moron.

The discussion of how the field of evolution was ruined by "math" and listening to Charles' inability to accept something in which he can't find any deeper meaning has thoroughly pissed me off.

Guess what? There's no deeper meaning in the color of oranges. It's co-evolution of visual systems and appealing colors. The reason a multivitamin isn't as good as fruits? Because we still don't know what all the good things in fruits are (the whole anti-oxidant baloney has only blown up in the past few years, there's still a lot to learn).

Charles, in real fields, people make progress by inspection and experimentation, not introspection and intellectual masturbation.

What the fuck are you doing on "ask Science" anyways? Go back to writing about women you find attractive.

what the fuck does science have to do with marxism?

@4 I guess you find out if you watch the podcast.

petersen, if i only took myself as seriously as you take me, i would have gone places by now.

like i've got nothing better to do than listen to charles discuss science. hey, i've got a better idea, why don't we all listen to SCIENTISTS discussing science. I think it might be slightly better use of our time.

Chas is frequently too boring for me to do much more than skim, so I don't always see the big picture of his ideology. But I did notice the way he brought up his "problem solving" idea, which was deployed in a reasonably entertaining fashion in the Police Beat movie.
Before he goes into that speech, he asks the question "Why organization? (in the face of a universe dedicated to disorganizing itself)" ...
To that I have a reply: Disorganization itself is a kind of organization. In the process of disorganizing the universe, life was created, which in its way disorganizes the disorganization. Only briefly and feebly, in the vast scale of the universe, but the tiny presence of the Order it represents makes the Chaos of the universe more genuinely chaotic.
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honey bucket dosent know anything about science though. is this going to be like goofus and galant?