29 Replies to “Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors”

  1. Someone clearly does not know what the prefix for ‘monoxide’ means. Or dioxide, for that matter.

  2. Considering the source, I have to wonder if that wasn’t more of a branding exercise than a chemistry eff up…”Evil Carbon Pollution Attacks Innocent Children”

  3. They’ve stirred up so much hatred of CO2 it’s become the default boogieman. Although probably a typo, it is now a “root cause”..

  7. The difference between C0 and C02 is just too difficult to comprehend, when for years you’ve been brainwashed to see C02 as evil. It just kinda leaps off the tongue.

  8. It just shows you, all these gases are dangerous — if you’re a progressive, don’t take any further chances, stop breathing now.
    And by the way, Harper put them there. He could have held back, but ignoring the scientists, he filled our atmosphere with gases. Nitrogen — there’s so much of it, oxygen, a real killer, argon — don’t trust it either.

  9. Quebec minister on CO2, is that like Rob Ford being on crack?
    That reminds me, I have to put a new battery in my second floor CO2 detector, it keeps going off and going off as though the house is full of CO2 fumes all the time!
    (must be my bulldog farting)

  11. I’m cynical enough to almost believe it wasn’t a mistake.
    Yeah, I truly believe they’re that evil.

  12. I think the media CO2 on the brain is a result of CBC cultists sniffing their own flatulence in the small confining bubble of sanctimony they inhabit.

  13. Actually a fairly common of the total ignorance of the MSM when it comes to any level of science one learns past grade 3. Am seeing the effect of dumbed down schooling even in nurses where a calculation of urine output yesterday was 1000 + 400 + 800 = 2400 ml. Then there was a discussion among some of the PT’s about how one divides fractions. Was very hard for me to not get involved.
    When I lived in Vancouver, was dissuaded from putting some bottles of H2O in a schoolyard with a large sign reading:
    Danger, dihydrogen monoxide – explosive reaction with Na metal
    Should have done it and time for little pranks like that to make the MSM look like the fools they are.

  14. Loki,
    That sounds just like another result of the “discovery math” that is the rage with Alberta Education.
    Surely, the nurses should get points for showing their work, (you know – The Method), in trying to get to the correct answer rather than actually getting it right or wrong. Patients’ health can’t be that important when measured against maintaining the nurses self-esteem. Basic math is hard!

  16. We should immediately email the CBC so they can investigate the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide, which has killed more humans than every other molecule combined. This stuff contributes to the greenhouse effect, causes severe burns, erodes the landscape, and enables corrosion and rusting of many metals.

  17. Cut the minister some slack. She is French. When I watched the news, she was speaking English but with difficulty and it is understandable she got confused. Then again, I never bothered watching the whole interview and maybe I am being too charitable.

  18. Why did you become a reporter?
    Couldn’t pass grade eight math and science.

  19. “maybe I am being too charitable”
    Born and raised in Canada and she can’t discern the difference between O and O2, yeah too apologetic.
    As a truly French minister of France once said, “They missed an opportunity to shut up.”

  20. I’ve always held the opinion that most people think the CO2 the MSM is always bitching about re. global warming is the same gas that kills people (usually) during the winter.

  21. @Oz
    I am used to running into Acadians in my province of NB who can’t speak English or have a very poor understanding of it. And that not just the old folks. Of course there are some who know English but refuse to speak it. So the minister’s weakness in English would not surprise me. My expectation are low in that regard. Disclaimer(or confession) I can’t speak French and I live in a rather French place, northern NB.

  23. Don’t forget the hundreds of deaths each year from inadvertent inhalation of dihydrogen monoxide. Why can’t they just ban such dangerous chemicals? Something needs to be done; we must protect the innocent children.
    The sad truth is that a politician advocating just that would get way too many votes.

  24. Math is easy. Look: if CO is bad, then CO2 must be twice as bad. See?

  25. Red Jeff and Alberta Lyle, unfortunately the effects of a dumbed down education system are going to make things a lot worse in the next decade. I’ve seen elderly demented patients who have absolutely no difficulty in performing serial subtractions of 7 from 100 without errors while insisting it’s Dec 12 1922 on a summer day. Yet, as I’ve pointed out before, I was told by a neurologist that the inability of a 17 year old to perform such subtractions is not considered to be evidence of cognitive dysfunction as kids these days “don’t do math”. Similarly, the number of atrocious spelling mistakes I see in reports written by PT’s, OT’s and social workers has been increasing every year. I’m sure if I asked one of the medical students to solve the simple differential equation of dy/dx = ax + b I’d get either blank looks or be accused of “bullying” as asking such a problem diminishes the “self esteem” of the person who is innumerate.
    Statists love a dumb population as it allows them to enact more and more regulations to control the peasants. Even in the interior of BC, there are now numerous new protocols that specify in explicit detail about how things are to be done fuelled in large part by new hires being so bereft of basic knowledge and common sense that they would be dangerous unless micro-managed. Might be time to move to a small town in northern BC where I can still improvise as the situation demands it instead of being constrained by statist micro managers.
    A nurse that can’t perform a simple addition without a calculator shouldn’t be working. I get amazed looks from the innumerate when they give me a simple mathematical problem and I give them an immediate answer and, disbelieving, they laboriously punch everything into a calculator and are astounded that I could come up with the result so quickly. Telling someone that they’re an innumerate moron is no longer considered acceptable and, should a nurse make a calculation error, then a committee is struck to look at how to ensure that a nurse with the IQ of a chimpanzee would be safely able to perform a particular task. Needless to say, despite the requirement that all physicians on staff be on various committees, I seem to be exempt from this requirement due to my “non-constructive” comments about various problems and my “unreasonable expectations” about what people should be able to do. I also make a point of letting the administration know that any funding shortfalls could be easily met by firing 90% or more of the administrators who are useless eaters. So, I guess I’m the resident knuckle dragging redneck physician.
    The order sheets at the hospital have specific instructions to not use > or “less than symbol” (which is an html control character so I can’t have it show up) as most people don’t know what they mean. I use them as well as sometimes write pseudocode type orders which quickly separates out the competent from incompetent nurses.
    The absolute ignorance of the MSM and most politicians about basic science and math is clear evidence that one is dealing with a civilization in decline. The good news in this dismal scenario is that very few of the ignorant will survive when the SHTF.

  26. @Loki
    You stated “should a nurse make a calculation error ”
    The tragedy that can happen will be due to the inability of an innumerate to recognize a severe wrongness of the calculation error. I use a calculator for more involved calculations but my mental math is good enough to recognize when I finger trip.
    I am really concerned that the basic(ok, call me an old fogey, you smart but innumerate educators) the math rote I learned(multiplication tables, mental addition/subtractions) have been eliminated from schools. I happen to look in my father’s arithmetic book from grade 4 and it drilled the basics in him(back in the 1920’s) pretty well the same way the basics were drilled into us in the late 1950’s.

  28. Interestingly enough, I was chatting with my daughter’s friend yesterday who’s mother is a nurse. She told me that her mom is not able to assist her with her math homework (grade 9) because she doesn’t understand the curriculum at this level. Sheesh!

  29. Please do not assume mother nurse is at fault; I found myself unable to help MY daughter with her math. The new texts have changed terminology (there were no “math sentences” in my day), a bizarre approach to teaching the basic algorithms (“Salif chose to do it this way; Randy used his manipulables; how might YOU do it?), and an utterly frustrating approach to organization (none). I believe that here in NB, they are phasing in the program that Alberta has just rebelled against.

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