http://www.nationalreview.com/...arles-c-w-cooke
"One part insecure hipsterism, one part unwarranted condescension, the two defining characteristics of self-professed nerds are (a) the belief that one can discover all of the secrets of human experience through differential equations and (b) the unlovely tendency to presume themselves to be smarter than everybody else in the world. Prominent examples include MSNBCs Melissa Harris-Perry, Rachel Maddow, Steve Kornacki, and Chris Hayes; Voxs Ezra Klein, Dylan Matthews, and Matt Yglesias; the sabermetrician Nate Silver; the economist Paul Krugman; the atheist Richard Dawkins; former vice president Al Gore; celebrity scientist Bill Nye; and, really, anybody who conforms to the Lefts social and moral precepts while wearing glasses and babbling about statistics."
"Thus do we see unexceptional liberal-arts students lecturing other people about things they dont understand themselves and terming the dissenters flat-earthers. Thus do we see people who have never in their lives read a single academic paper clinging to the mantle of science as might Albert Einstein. Thus do we see residents of Brooklyn who are unable to tell you at what temperature water boils rolling their eyes at Bjørn Lomborg or Roger Pielke Jr. because he disagrees with Harry Reid on climate change. Really, the only thing in these peoples lives that is peer-reviewed are their opinions. Dont have a Reddit account? Believe in God? Skeptical about the threat of overpopulation? Who are you, Sarah Palin?"
"One part insecure hipsterism, one part unwarranted condescension, the two defining characteristics of self-professed nerds are (a) the belief that one can discover all of the secrets of human experience through differential equations and (b) the unlovely tendency to presume themselves to be smarter than everybody else in the world. Prominent examples include MSNBCs Melissa Harris-Perry, Rachel Maddow, Steve Kornacki, and Chris Hayes; Voxs Ezra Klein, Dylan Matthews, and Matt Yglesias; the sabermetrician Nate Silver; the economist Paul Krugman; the atheist Richard Dawkins; former vice president Al Gore; celebrity scientist Bill Nye; and, really, anybody who conforms to the Lefts social and moral precepts while wearing glasses and babbling about statistics."
"Thus do we see unexceptional liberal-arts students lecturing other people about things they dont understand themselves and terming the dissenters flat-earthers. Thus do we see people who have never in their lives read a single academic paper clinging to the mantle of science as might Albert Einstein. Thus do we see residents of Brooklyn who are unable to tell you at what temperature water boils rolling their eyes at Bjørn Lomborg or Roger Pielke Jr. because he disagrees with Harry Reid on climate change. Really, the only thing in these peoples lives that is peer-reviewed are their opinions. Dont have a Reddit account? Believe in God? Skeptical about the threat of overpopulation? Who are you, Sarah Palin?"
