"James L Smith called this "fractal wrongness", a term which I had not heard before but which I plan on using in the future.
"There is no part of her statement that even so much as brushes up against the truth. It's wrong at every conceivable level."
On a more direct note, I gotta say... the fact that these kinds of horrifyingly stupid values are starting to infiltrate the hard scientists should be deeply concerning for everyone who likes having things like computers, and internet, and food, functioning bridges and buildings that don't collapse.
The creeping Dark Ages mentality that's already hard at work destroying the humanities, journalism, and entertainment media is all fun and games to the potential destruction of engineering, physics, and math.
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