Election fraud in 2004?
In the linked post above, it is mentioned that a Rolling Stone article claims that Ohio fell victim to voter fraud. It states that various exit polls predicted a different outcome than the official votes actually indicated. Like any natural form of denial, the idea goes like this:
We KNOW that Kerry really had the votes to win. Since the exit polls showed this and the actual votes did not, the actual votes must be flawed!Of course! The real votes mean nothing, only the exit polls are significant. Riiiiiiight.
I think we have all seen enough disparity among every manner of election polls to know that it is practically a bogus excercise in prediction.
This is almost as ridiculous as my earlier post on dinosaur flesh. Certain scientists *knew* so strongly that their specimen was 65 million years old that they would rather cast doubt on the decay of flesh than on their sacred theory of ages.
I'm certain that all of us engage in this sort of mental gymnastics from time to time without knowing it. Even still, it is utterly ridiculous.
posted by Seamus at 11:47 AM
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12:47 PM
It's those damn Lizard-men again! Somebody get David Icke on the phone.
12:58 PM
If you're citing fossil evidence as proof that vote fraud could not have possibly taken place in Ohio, perhaps you might want to reconsider your argument.
6:34 PM
Not quite, Xanth. Perhaps you better re-read my argument, lol.
Those TWM are "silly, ain't they?"
7:19 PM
Seamus, you will just incite rage from them again.
But:
Seamus draws an interesting parallel, saying both arguments in the articles base their claims on knowledge when in fact the "knowledge" itself is disputable (or at least, more similar to theory).
I personally believe the Earth is millions of years old. This makes sense to me, but Seamus makes a valid argument that the Earth's age could be deemed as a theory, rather than cold, hard fact.
Now I don't know the first thing about carbon dating, nor do I want to take time to learn about it. All I'm saying is that the POSSIBILITY exists that our theories of the Earth's age could be mistaken or skewed.
10:10 AM
I know, I have already been getting the "rage" in emails from Xanth about this. It's odd though, because all I'm really mocking is the Rolling Stone article.
But that's ok, because their rage won't show up on this blog anymore; at least not while I'm moderating the comments.
10:18 AM
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