Phoenix44

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

If science were never to be questioned, your doctor would still be recommending a particular brand of cigarette to settle the nerves.

You'd be dosing the baby with heroin cough syrup, because Bayer sold it over the counter.

You'd be rubbing cocaine on its gums for teething, and the chemist would recommend the stronger tube.

The DDT lorry would still come round to fog the street while the children carried on playing in the spray.

Your surgeon would be reaching for the icepick, because the man who pioneered the lobotomy was given a Nobel Prize for it.

Pregnant women would be handed thalidomide for their morning sickness, with a reassuring pat on the shoulder.

You'd be drinking radium tonic for your energy and brushing with radioactive toothpaste for the glow.

Stomach ulcers would still be filed under "stress," and the man who proved they were bacterial would still be a laughing stock.

Butter would be the villain and margarine the heart-healthy hero, on the firmest medical advice going.

Lead would still be in your petrol, your paint and your water pipes, certified harmless by the people selling it.

All of it, in its day, was the consensus. Settled. Beyond polite debate.

"Settled science" is the phrase people reach for when they would quite like you to stop asking questions.

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@True23290qyom @mattwridley @DavidLammy @TrevorPTweets No they were not. The evidence is very clear that your claim is false. And simply saying any issue with immigration is motivated by racism is a childish claim.

So try again, this time like a grown up.

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@stevenctilley @ClareCraigPath No it is not. This is completely faulty statistics.

200 people benefit, millions disbenefit.

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@trinity4now333 @DanielJHannan It's political pantomime.

We should recognise that.

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@ross_baglin @MaleHumanPerso1 @DanielJHannan But they didn't. You misuse adjuration as well.

She said "I don't care if..."

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@ross_baglin @DanielJHannan Saying "I don't care if" is a very long way from incitement.

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@DanielJHannan @freakthoughts You are conflating person opinions with roles that require neutrality. Vylan can chant what he likes: but he shouldn't be on the BBC. She can openly support Hamas: but she should openly acknowledge that if she wants to be elected.

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@rcsloggett @Thea_Stein @rcolvile Why? There's zero accountability in the system & always will be, because there is no mechanism for it in the fundamental structure.

We have had scandal after scandal after scandal, murders, deaths, corruption. It never changes because it cannot change.

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@drokane @DraperOr @rcolvile So arrogant & condescending.

You have no idea of Economics or how the private sector worjs but think you can lecture us about "underfunding". Ignorant & inexperienced yet you think you can use 1 cliche to describe a systematic failure.

Grow up, spoilt child.

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@drokane @DraperOr @rcolvile Ah yes, always the "underfunded" excuse. You never consider how nothing in the private sector is ever "underfunded". How we have as many smartphones or flights or laptops as we demand.

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@drokane @DraperOr @rcolvile Over 1,000 avoidable deaths per month.

According to the Guardian.

Or don't you care about that?

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@drokane @DraperOr @rcolvile That makes no sense.

Why would that be true in a workd where I pay a lot less for a lot more in virtually every other area?

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@rcolvile The problems with the NHS have little or nothing to do with the way it is organised.

You can never create sufficient capacity in a free, on demand service.

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@TomHCalver You don't need to zoom out. Net Zero replaces things we want & are highly productive with things that we don't want & are less productive. That's negative growth on both counts. And the lower productivity explains the higher cost.

Far too much Scientism, not enough Economics.

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@gwynedd8364 @cjsnowdon I do love people who think you bizarrely need a PhD to accept Economics as being corect.

Are you on the fence about the Earth being flat because you don't have a doctorate in Geography?

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@cjsnowdon It's like Campbell is wholly unaware of what he used to do.

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@RepealTCPA1947 @WoodlandRealm77 @cjsnowdon They can't vote correctly if they are exposed to the wrong opinions.

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@Kariann59589585 @WoodlandRealm77 @cjsnowdon They only hate X since non-Progressives were allowed to post.

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@WoodlandRealm77 @FredTitmus @cjsnowdon Right, because no government has ever lied.

I mean are you retarded?

The idea the state will guarantee truth is beyond laughable.

[Phoenix44 @Phoenix4419]

@WoodlandRealm77 @cjsnowdon Do you honestly believe angrily asserting your vapid opinions is an argument?