you seem to be missing the gist of the complaint against her "[Moron] Stupid Tweet." There are a class of epistemological paradoxes known as Gettier problems, where one can have correct "knowledge" for the "wrong" reasons. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem for a very simple explanation. In particular check out Chisolm's "sheep in the field" example if you want the tl;dr version. AOC in this case may have the correct "knowledge" (i.e., climate change is real), but she has inferred it or derived it from the STUPIDEST OF EVIDENCE . . . in this case a streak of Atlantic storms on a map. "OF COURSE THIS DEMONSTRATES CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL." What makes this a [Moron] Stupid Ocasio-Cortez Tweet is her inference, not her assertion.
What evidence do you have that she derived this knowledge from storms rather than from the overwhelming scientific consensus? You think she just looked at a tweet and saw "storms" so now she believes climate change is real? What? Maybe you're a little too anxious to believe the stupidest things possible as a way to diminish her. Just maybe.
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I fail to understand the fear those here who fall politically somewhere on the "Right" have of Ms. Ocassio-Cortez. What is it about her that frightens you so much, people? Did she get more favorable publicity than you can stand? Is she too attractive for you? What? It couldn't be her politics, which aren't much different from that of mainstream Democrats, which remains the largest political party in the United States. Is it because she is a young successful woman? Are some male egos bent out of shape? Is she seen as a future political threat to the GOP that must be attacked early and often? Heck, I think that's it, even though the lady has yet to win her congressional seat, something that will happen soon enough. I'm not sure you good folks realize just how bizarre your fixation with her appears. Quite bizarre, from where I sit.
She's a literal Socialist, the most deadly ideology in the past century plus....Socialism is something that has brought death, poverty, and starvation everywhere it has been tried....the idea of it working it's way into America is something worthy of fear. It's basically a more dangerous version of if there was a literal Nazi about to be elected to congress. I'm pretty sure you'd understand the problem with that, you are just blinded when it comes to Socialism.
No one is afraid of her. People on the right love the idea of Ocassio-Cortez and her agenda being the future of the Democratic party.
Need actually moronic tweets honestly. And C. Clinton? is referencing an LA Times article moronic? Is the LA Times moronic? I don't find them to be, but maybe I am a moron. If we're looking for random political morons on Twitter, I'm confident we can do better.
Actually an interesting article about a serious research project. _______ Experts have previously predicted that climate change could fuel the spread of conditions such as malaria and dengue fever, because rising temperatures will broaden the range of disease-spreading mosquitoes. Likewise, as extreme weather becomes more of the norm, so will cholera and other water-borne illnesses. But diabetes is different. It doesn't spread like an infectious disease. People develop type 2 diabetes when their extra pounds and sedentary lifestyle make their bodies less sensitive to insulin. That, in turn, causes their blood sugar to rise and can eventually lead to heart disease, nerve damage, kidney problems and other serious health issues. Researchers thought they might find a link between rising temperatures and diabetes for a completely different reason — the activity of brown fat. Also known as brown adipose tissue, or BAT, this fat kicks into gear when temperatures are low and the body needs heat to stay warm. A 2015 study of eight adults with Type 2 diabetes found that after spending 10 days in moderately cold weather, their metabolisms improved and they became more sensitive to insulin, reversing a key symptom of the disease. A 2016 study found a correlation between outside temperature and a measure of blood sugar called HbA1c — when the first was higher, so was the second. Findings like these led Dutch researchers to wonder whether climate change could explain some of the worldwide increase in diabetes. Back in 1980, 108 million adults had the disease; by 2014, that figure was 422 million, according to the World Health Organization. The researchers turned to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to gather data on the prevalence of diabetes in all 50 states for each year between 1996 and 2013. They also found the average temperature for each state in each year from the National Centers for Environmental Information. Comparing the two, they found that the higher the average temperature in a particular time and place, the higher the age-adjusted incidence of diabetes. Overall, as the average annual temperature rose by 1 degree Celsius (or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit), the number of diabetes cases rose by 3.1 per 10,000 people. Obesity is a risk factor for Type 2 diabetes, and the researchers also found that each 1-degree Celsius temperature increase was associated with a 0.173% increase in the prevalence of obesity. Even when the researchers adjusted for the prevalence of obesity in each state, they found that each 1-degree temperature increase was associated with 2.9 additional cases of diabetes per 10,000 people. Overall, the warmer the place, the higher the incidence of diabetes. "There is no apparent geographical pattern which could explain this association," the researchers wrote. The team also looked beyond the United States to examine the connection between temperature and conditions related to Type 2 diabetes. Sure enough, they found that as the temperature rose by 1 degree C, the prevalence of high fasting blood sugar (a marker for diabetes) rose by nearly 0.2% and the prevalence of obesity rose by just under 0.3%. The results were published Monday in the journal BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care.
