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[theweaselking]

"Study of Pot Smokers' Brains Shows That MRIs Cause Bad Science Reporting"

(Warning, crank site, full of bad logic and counterrational leaps. And they also make one of the very same mistakes they are complaining about: How do they know the MRIs *cause* bad science reporting, instead of just being correlated with bad science reporting in at least one case? But still, very funny.)

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[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Not just SF, but SF certainly does have a long history of backwards-thinking terrified reactionaries. Why do you think so many stories are "in the future, everything is terrible because things I disagree with were not stopped" or "here is an unsubtle allegory explaining why Those People are monsters"?

Seriously, scared-old-man-SF is genuinely a thing, like how postwar Japanese cinema is terrified of atomic weapons and how the scientist investigating the unknown, if he exists, is ALWAYS the source of the problem in late-20th horror.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Did I mention my theory to you that it's simply another example of the mentality which results in so much bad discrimiflip?

I mean, bad discrimiflip is basically "the social order is different and LOOK IT'S ALL HORRIBLE NOW I WARNED YOU." Reactionary change-and-progress fearing SF is basically "the environment I might be in is different and LOOK IT'S ALL HORRIBLE NOW I WARNED YOU."

(Did I also mention I found a button that says "I have no problem with change as long as everything stays exactly the same"? I get the impulse. Oh, yes, I get it. I just don't embrace it.)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I mean, bad discrimiflip is basically "the social order is different and LOOK IT'S ALL HORRIBLE NOW I WARNED YOU."

Nah, bad discrimflip is all about "the powered are powerless, and the previously powerless are lording it over them, and OH GOD DO YOU NOT SEE HOW I HAVE TRULY EXPRESSED THEIR STRUGGLE"

[torrain.livejournal.com]

You are too gentle. Bad discrimiflip is "the previously powerless are lords, LOOK HOW TERRIBLE THINGS ARE NOW (subtext: we were right to keep them gays/women/POC powerless!)"

It's a desperate plea to reinforce and validate the status quo by suggesting that a change in it would result in monstrosities, y'know?

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Mommy? Daddy? Stop fighting! *sob*

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

But enough about Harlan Ellison.