Today's Dilbert rings true on DU...and just about everywhere else on the Internets.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

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http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-06-07



Don't be a Dick.

[tblue37]

1. KnR. nt

[valerief]

2. Brilliant!

[Duckhunter935]

3. A Dick joke

If I were very sensitive......

But I feel more like this

[boston bean]

47. So you don't take offense to male gendered slurs?

You were just in a thread demanding I speak to them as if you they bothered you.

I guess that is not the case?

[Duckhunter935]

48. I just wanted to see the hypocrisy

And I got my answer. As in anything it depends on context.

[LanternWaste]

64. That's a creative way to rationalize your two standards...

That's a creative way to rationalize your two standards...

[whatchamacallit]

4. Fits the "pro science" woo hunters to a tee n/t

[alp227]

7. Tone argument isn't an argument.

Those who advocate junk, whether Bigfoot sightings, phony medicine, or Birtherism, deserve to be yelled at.

[whatchamacallit]

9. Yes internet guy

We understand it's hard work policing the net.

[NuclearDem]

11. Woo deserves to be hunted.

And woo pushers deserve to be shamed.

[whatchamacallit]

13. Whatever floats your boat

My problem is when that same fervor is applied, not to obvious woo, but to things that are still being studied and may be in dispute. Here's where you angrily tell me everything you believe has been settled and post links to opinions and studies that support your bias.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

16. I like how Einstein says it

All we can make are tentative deductions

[whatchamacallit]

24. He'd be ridiculed

if he were posting on the Internet today.

[xocet]

18. Ok, that is one vote for standing up for proud, unbridled ignorance. Good for you! n/t

[whatchamacallit]

23. And a vote for small minded certitude and arrogance

Good for you!

[xocet]

60. By all means, if you can author and publish papers on your favorite flavor of woo

in peer-reviewed science journals, then you can go from woo-flinger to scientist. Defending science from charlatans, quacks, anti-vaxxers, flat-Earthers, creationists, climate-deniers and their ilk is nothing of which to be ashamed - call it what ever you will.

[whatchamacallit]

65. I assume you understand it's intellectually dishonest

to ascribe every crazy notion or theory to people who may have reservations about the current consensus on a single topic like say, GMO safety or therapeutic use of supplements... It's so Internet Guy of you.

[xocet]

66. Go ahead and publish. If you can't do that then you have nothing. Don't be shy. JAMA and Oslo await!

n/t

[whatchamacallit]

67. Have you published

Internet Guy?

[xocet]

69. I'm not making any claims that need to be justified. That burden is yours to bear. Have you? n/t

[whatchamacallit]

73. What burden, what claims?

Please be specific about the particular woo I'm owning. I simply said the character in the Dilbert cartoon reminded me of DU's self-appointed lay Science Police. You showed up and proved it by spouting nonsense and projecting crap about Flat Earthers and Climate Deniers onto me.

[xocet]

75. It is your choice in what you would care to defend - science or not science. Have at it. n/t

[whatchamacallit]

79. "Science or, not science"?

Lol... What does that even mean? Is there some kind of all or nothing buy in? Dude, science isn't a monolith to be worshiped, it's a mutable, evolving process. This "I'm better than you because I stand with SCIENCE!" thing is what makes you The Guy From The Internet.

[xocet]

81. It is a good thing that I never claimed that I was better than you, that science is a monolith, or

that there is some sort of "all-or-nothing buy-in (sic)".

The real and, until now, unanswered question is why you apparently consider "woo hunters" to be worthy of derision - I will not be waiting for an answer to that.

Enjoy your lulz. ("Lol...What does that even mean?&quot

[G_j]

76. do you have a uniform for that?

[xocet]

78. No, there is no uniform. Science is worth defending, though. If people want to hunt woo and...

openly correct those who want to defend or propagate woo, I have no problem with that.



If people don't speak up against woo, more of the following is likely on the way:

or

The latter is still out there even after 4 years. Do you notice something very wrong with that 'water molecule'?

I will not further belabor the point, but there is no reason to compare people who defend science to an unfavorable character in a comic strip: i.e., "Fits the 'pro science' woo hunters to a tee."

[G_j]

83. I am not familiar with your posts

but I have seen plenty of people lump things like acupuncture and herbal medicine together with chem trails etc. as "woo". The term is quite misused, I tend to not trust people who use it, and suspect there is some sort of agenda. These discussions could be had without throwing the nebulous "woo" lable around constantly. That's not at all very scientific IMHO.

[alp227]

5. Hypocritical, given Adams' online misogyny...

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Plain_ol.27_sexism

[MADem]

30. Now THAT'S a must-read link...the guy is a real ...errrrrrr... jerk! nt

[stage left]

31. Your link explains why the characterization of Dick is so spot on.

[awoke_in_2003]

39. Didn't know he was such a tool

Thanks for the link

[DemocraticWing]

49. I'm guessing Adams probably views nearly everybody on this site as "Dick."

Since his online M.O seems to be to paint anybody who advocates for a liberal causes as a dick.

[Maraya1969]

6. So true!

I used to be kind of a jerk sometimes when I posted on places like Youtube but I learned and now I attempt to be always kind or at the very least, not insulting. I've even gone so far as to tell a person that their anger is hurting themselves, suggesting they try and be nicer and that will make them a happier person.

We can counter all this hate just by sending love to it.

[Cooley Hurd]

8. I snipped it:

[yuiyoshida]

19. Yes but have you noticed?

Some people don't know Dick !

[Cooley Hurd]

20. ...then, they haven't been on DU long.

[hifiguy]

38. But do they know Jack?

[hobbit709]

41. The animated version.

[hifiguy]

43. . . .

The deadpan delivery just makes it that much funnier.

[catrose]

54. The villain in Jasper Fforde's "The Eyre Affair" is Jack Schitt.

In later books we meet his half brother, Brik Schitt-Hawse.

[cwydro]

51. ...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

62. Thanks. nt

[immoderate]

10. Sent it to my favorite wing nut troll.

It's him!

--imm

[lpbk2713]

12. Ah yes.

I've met Dick. Much too often than I'd like too.

[jtuck004]

14. Wow. I met him on DU this week. Now it seems that others see the same things. lol n/t

[Rex]

15. Wow, that is exactly like the MO of a few around here!

They must all go to the same salon!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

17. heeeey! I know Dick, too. He gets around!

LoLoL!

I'm sending 5 links that aren't as relevant as I think they are.....

[-none]

45. Those links happens way too much.

Derails or side tracts the thread, which may be the primary purpose

[PersonNumber503602]

21. hehehe...

Gotta love the internets.

[djean111]

22. "I'm sending you 5 links that aren't as relevant as I think they are" ....for the win!

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

35. Are they about a conspircy to turn Detroit into a factory farm?

What about the spectacular successes of the regimes of Robert Mugabe and Hugo Chavez?

[djean111]

36. Oh, I was thinking more along the lines of politicians' utterances and the mysterious ones

wherein we are told an agreement does not exist yet, but here is proof it is just dandy.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. Nobody is going to alert on this thread as a personal attack?

[djean111]

28. Bwahahaha! Excellent!

[bluesbassman]

44. MIRT PPR's Cheney's account too quickly for him to alert.

[-none]

46. And out themselves?

Good luck on that one.
The verbiage in the reason for the alert would narrow in down quite a bit.

[cwydro]

52. No doubt someone has lol!

I wonder if we have any member names with Dick in them.

Wait, that sounded all wrong. But, you know what I meant.

[Kali]

56. in highschool there was a security guard

his quote in the yearbook was "I'm glad my name is Dick, because that is what everybody calls me."

[cwydro]

57. Oh dear...

at least he had a sense of humor!

[Pooka Fey]

26. LOL

[kentuck]

27. So true.

[Gothmog]

29. Great cartoon

[ms liberty]

32. yea, that pretty much sums it up! K&R. n/t

[Lifelong Protester]

33. Very funny!

I really laughed out loud~thank you for posting!

[KT2000]

34. WOW! That is the script!

have seen it any times here from the so-called science crowd.

[uppityperson]

37. Perfect. k&r and bookmarking

[hifiguy]

40. There are so many Dicks

on the intertubes.

[Blue_In_AK]

42. That's hilarious.

[cwydro]

50. Saw this in another thread.

But, I just gotta give it a bump.

Fantastic cartoon.

[lovemydog]

53. Ha!

[Kali]

55. !

I'm sending you five links that are not as relevant as I think they are

[cwydro]

58. ...

[fadedrose]

59. The Internets guy

posts on DU...I forgit his nick...but he's the same in a cartoon as he is here...



Thank you for posting. I enjoyed it.

[MFrohike]

61. The bit about the links is gold

I've seen way too many people who think that posting a bunch of links magically means they understand the subject at hand.

As for Adams personally, he is pretty much a tool. He's also had a lot of strips that ring uncomfortably true to life, so I guess even tools have their uses.

[prayin4rain]

63. Haha, too true! n/t

[Calista241]

68. Awesome! n/t

[DawgHouse]

70. I know that guy!

[Liberal_in_LA]

71. lol

[B Calm]

72. Does look familiar. . .

[DrDan]

74. love it - when did Scott Adams become a DUer?

[Arugula Latte]

82. Adams is an anti-women scumbag.

I HOPE he's not on DU.

[notadmblnd]

77. That one made me snort laugh.

[MrMickeysMom]

80. Tommy, when I read that in this Sunday's paper...

I though of all those "special" DU moments, beginning in the old Dungeon of DU2 for me! The hits just keep coming, and as is often the case, Dilbert GETS it right on!