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Fucking Ignorant Engineers

I may have an engineering degree, but somehow I managed to dodge the arrogant ignorance that seems to infect so much of the older generation of engineers. Sorry, bub, but just because you can crunch numbers for fluid mechanics or solve electromagnetic boundary equations doesn’t mean you know fuck all about biology. When I was thinking of starting my own blog, what I originally had in mind was a group blog for engineers who aren’t aggressively ignorant about biology, pretty much just to give a big middle finger to those who are.

In that spirit, here’s a dumbass engineer who gets taken down rather nicely by PalMD at Denialism Blog, so I don’t have to do it myself! A brief quote to demonstrate how asinine this guy is:

And you can’t get the senses in operational mode until you have developed a sophisticated brain with the ability to communicate and interact with the senses.

“Operational mode”? Dude, it’s a brain, not a fucking computer. On top of which, what does “operational mode” even mean? It’s not a standard term with any kind of meaning, it’s just a technical-sounding false analogy this guy pulled out of his ass to sound like he knows what he’s talking about. Well, he doesn’t. Not even a little.

Then again, the guy claims to be a lawyer in addition to an engineer, so maybe that’s why he’s so full of shit.

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 at 11:17 and is filed under Jackassery, Science & Skepticism, WTF? Mates. ^^. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Fucking Ignorant Engineers”


  • Martha
    May 28th, 2008 14:39
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    It’s funny… I don’t usually hear biologists trying to be engineers, unlike you’re Michael Behe and you’re trying to prove a point about the flagella. Doesn’t work the other way around, either. They always (and rightfully) get called out.

  • Belgand
    July 28th, 2008 07:01
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    Indeed, most of the other biologists I know generally feel content to know what they know and leave it at that.

    Not to mention, of course, the many amazingly inaccurate and completely wrong things going on with what he’s saying.

    Sense can, of course, be more or less hardwired. That’s the entire point of reflexes: senses that don’t require higher brain function to work and, for that matter, actually work regardless of whether higher brain functions try to inhibit them.

    You ever need someone smacked with a clue-by-four about biology, feel free to ask me.

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