Sometimes I wonder about these scientists. I really want to believe the hype about the noble search for truth and whole Einstein archetype. I do. But reality keeps interfering.
Some physicist has done a study into the social web within the fictional universe of Marvel Comics. Putting aside that this is a scientific study into a fictional universe, he has discovered something really interesting: The superheroes always win because they’re socially better connected.
“Why’s that?” you might ask. Or you might not. I didn’t. But I got the answer anyway.
Apparently it’s because the Comics Magazine Association of America has rules. Such as: “Criminals shall not be presented so as to be rendered glamorous or to occupy a position which creates the desire for emulation.”
Okay. Thank you science. Next time you might want to read the rules of the fictional universe before you bother with the study. I mean, it’s not a real place. You don’t need empiricism to find the truth here. There is, actually a rule book. You have discovered the God of a fictional universe and It is called “Comics Magazine Association of America”. Con-fucking-gratulations.
Another recent study has concluded that “Work time is the largest influence to the duration of a person’s sleep.” In plain English, the more you work the less you sleep. I wonder if that may have something to do with the principle of “Finite Hours Contained Within Each Day.”
Then you have good old Richard Dawkins. He is now insisting that atheists be called “brights”, that they “come out”, wear shirts with a bright red A on them –sold on his website, of course– and that minority religious groups like the Jews can control politics because they are better organized than atheists. (I have to admit, when I start hearing about the Jews controlling politics, my eyes glaze over.) Dawkins is, in short, doing everything he can to ensure that the atheists become as crazy as the religious people.
I mean it’s only funny because it’s so ridiculous. Mastermind Dawkins sitting around, rubbing his hands together and thinking: I know how to convert religious people. First we’ll claim that we’re bright and they’re dull. It’s like we’re some sort of supermen and they’re not. Then we’ll come out of the closet just like the gays, throw religious scientists out of the academy for their thought crimes just like the commies. Religious people will dig that. But we need good graphic design. People like that sort of thing. How about a big scarlet letter on our chests? Then we’ll start bad mouthing the Jews because they’re a well organized minority that wields influence. What can possibly go wrong with this? Adolph who?
I wish he’d just shut the fuck up and go back to harassing fruit flies.
Oh and the beautiful quote by Issac Newton, the one that says: “If I have seen further, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants.” It’s not actually very nice at all. It’s a sarcastic jab aimed at a hunchbacked dwarf scientist, Robert Hooke, who claimed Issac stole his work.
Nice one, Issac. Questionable taste but pretty funny all the same.
