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46. A report with an agenda behind it

and questionable methodology. This kind of garbage gets spread around out there for the purposes of disinformation to support an agenda. As an example I watched, after years of abstaining, the latest show by Bill Maher. What a horse's backside this guy is. He was bashing energy conservation and recycling efforts by citing figures with no attribution. The fist one was that over the last many decades we have only decreased the percentage of electricity generated by coal by 1%. Says who and by what methodology? His next a**hole move was to knock recycling of plastics by stating we only use 5% of what is recycled. Again no attribution etc. and his basic take was that it was useless and he claimed it was useless to segregate waste since it "all" is going to the same place and he reinforced it with pictures of landfill. Of course even if his 5% figure is correct he is way too ignorant to understand the huge impact a sudden 5% increase would have on landfills if we ended our efforts. But his program went even further down this road of ignorance.

He then had a segment claiming that college education is way overrated and most jobs can be done by people without a degree. So apparently following in the footsteps of that master of medical science, Aaron Rodgers, it seems that Bill has decided that it would be good for his heart surgeon to be the guy who took a night course while working as a plumber. Or apparently Bill thinks that the solutions to highly technical research in biology etc. are to be found in the minds of people with a GED as their last achievement.

The topper to the whole crappy show was that Bill was couching all of this in the guise of being the realm of elitists and the reason why Dems lose. The last most flabbergasting part was that he surmised that our initiatives in conservation etc. fail because we are all bad selfish people. Based on the wild applause and whooping and screaming of his audience I would dare say that not one of them saw the irony in a man decrying bad selfish behavior in one breath and then supporting that behavior with misleading information in the next. All while suggesting that learning and discovery are overrated.