Bill Nye is a self-proclaimed "scientist" who thinks that if you believe something hard enough, it's as true as things discovered through the process of science, and if you don't believe it, then it's objectively wrong. This is the dirty little secret of the left's sudden embrace of science. It's not science that they support, but religion. They support that which they believe, but cannot prove, and do not care about proving. Science is just a baton for the left. A decade ago, the left declared President Bush anti-science for his restrictions on the use of new federally funded fetal stem cell lines. They claimed that Bush hated science, that fetal stem cells were the wave of the future, and that he was a moral ayatollah. In other words, science has not dictated their behavior. It s just the name for anything the left likes. And yet, as Oren Cass points out, there are plenty of people who know better than the most pro-choice ideologues about how life in the womb is a complex thing, not a black and white thing. There are people who are better than you at making decisions about whether or not you should be allowed to have a baby. And yet we still get it wrong, even when science is the only thing that can make sense. and yet we keep insisting that it s not a matter of fact, it s a moral stance, not an opinion or a point of view and not a moral one. and that we should be able to make better decisions about what s good and bad and what s bad and what is good and what isn t good and good and which is better than what s not good and which isn t bad and which we should all agree on and what s better than . What s good, you ask the question: is it better than that? or not? And what are you going to do with your sperm? And does it have a butt stuff? and does it really have a voice? And what s it have some butt stuff ? is it more than it s good or not good, or is it ? And is it good and not better than it has some of its own butt stuff and it s just not that s better or not ? or it s in a ? And why is it not? And why does it matter?
00:00:09.000You know, like gay rights and abortion and global redistributionism and dying polar bears and stuff.
00:00:14.000Leading the charge was eminent scientific revolutionary Bill Nye the Science Guy, a mechanical engineering degree holder, who got famous as a children's television presenter.
00:00:40.000Somewhere along the way, there has developed this idea that if you believe something hard enough, it's as true as things discovered through the process of science.
00:00:46.000And I will say, that's objectively wrong.
00:00:51.000Unfortunately, Nye then followed up his widely praised appearance at the March for Science by unleashing a video that destroyed the internet from his news show, Bill Nye Saves the World.
00:00:58.000He trotted out crazy ex-girlfriend to actress Rachel Bloom to sing a very special song.
00:01:32.000If these all seem rather unscientific to you, if you wonder why a talking vagina with obvious self-control problems is being trotted out by the self-proclaimed science guy, you're not alone.
00:02:02.000This is the dirty little secret of the left's sudden embrace of science!
00:02:05.000It's not science that they support, but religion.
00:02:07.000They support that which they believe but cannot prove and do not care about proving.
00:02:10.000Bill Nye isn't interested in a scientific debate about global warming, how much is occurring, the measurement techniques it issued, the sensitivity of the climate to carbon emissions, the range of factors that affect the climate.
00:02:19.000He wants you to accept his version of the truth.
00:02:21.000Not just that global warming is happening, but that massive government intervention is necessary in order to avert imminent global catastrophe.
00:02:28.000Such government solutions aren't verifiably scientific.
00:02:31.000But that speculation has costs, particularly to the most impoverished people on the planet, who benefit disproportionately from cheap carbon-based fuels.
00:02:38.000Even if you accept the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimate that sea levels will rise by two feet over the course of the rest of the century and the temperature will rise about seven degrees Fahrenheit, there is reason to question, as Oren Cass points out, whether or not massive government intervention is necessary or even justifiable.
00:02:54.000But the left refuses to acknowledge such questions.
00:02:56.000It makes you a denier to disagree with the left's
00:02:59.000Just as it makes you a cruel person to wonder whether gun control will actually lower the American murder rate.
00:03:04.000Science, in other words, is just a baton for the left.
00:03:06.000A decade ago, the left declared President Bush anti-science for his restrictions on the use of new federally funded fetal stem cell lines.
00:03:13.000They claimed that Bush hated science, that fetal stem cells were the wave of the future, that Bush was a moral ayatollah in the words of Senator Tom Harkin.
00:03:20.000Democrats ran on the promise that if Bush were thrown out of office in 2004, they'd make Christopher Reeve walk again using fetal stem cells.
00:03:27.000But it turned out fetal stem cells were unnecessary to scientific research.
00:03:30.000Scientists came up with an embryo-free process to produce genetically matched stem cells.
00:03:34.000As Charles Krauthammer, no religious fundamentalist, and a guy who, by the way, is paralyzed, wrote at the time,
00:03:50.000Science is not capable of making value-laden decisions.
00:03:53.000There are plenty of obegines who know better than the most pro-life conservative just how complex life is in the womb, yet they will perform abortions.
00:04:00.000Science has not dictated their behavior.
00:04:01.000The Nazis were famously pro-science, declaring that science itself mandated the killing of the unfit for the strengthening of the race.
00:04:07.000Their racism was supposedly scientific.
00:04:09.000That's why the March for Science is such foolishness.
00:04:11.000If the march were simply focused on advocacy for increased EPA funding, that would be political, not scientific.
00:04:17.000If the marchers were demanding more funding for the NIH too, that too would be political, but with a stronger scientific component.
00:04:22.000But the March for Science was actually a march for science, the leftist religion.
00:04:26.000And that leftist religion isn't interested in science in the slightest.
00:04:29.000It's simplistic and simple-minded virtue signaling.
00:06:13.000The Democrats continue to harp about science, and their new favorite science people are, obviously they love Caitlyn Jenner, because Caitlyn Jenner is an emissary for science, which is silly, but the other person who's the emissary for science is Bill Nye the Science Guy, which just demonstrates, you know, the left, which claims that it's just terrible, we have a celebrity president.
00:06:32.000The person that they are trotting out as their lead spokesperson for science is a guy with a mechanical engineering degree from Cornell.
00:06:42.000That guy is the scientist who they think is the expert on all things scientific, and that means that Bill Nye is pushing his version of science.
00:06:48.000What does his version of science look like?
00:06:50.000Well, again, he has this idiotic show on Netflix called Bill Nye Saves the World, and as I said yesterday, spoiler alert, he doesn't.
00:06:57.000Here is a segment from that horrible show in which he says that three-year-olds should be able to choose their own gender.
00:07:04.000By three or four, most kids identify with a gender.
00:07:07.000And it doesn't always match the sex they were assigned at birth.
00:07:10.000And a person's gender identity may change over their lifetime.
00:07:13.000And culture is getting us new ways to express all of this.
00:07:17.000How you dress, how you act, talk, how you present yourself to the world.
00:07:48.000There are certain aspects of masculinity that are certainly not a social construct.
00:07:51.000Higher levels of testosterone average higher levels of violence by males than females.
00:07:55.000That is not a social construct, that is a biological reality, okay?
00:07:58.000So that is not an aspect of gender, that's more an aspect of sex.
00:08:02.000The left likes to conflate sex and gender, so they separate these two things.
00:08:06.000They say sex is your biology, and then they say that gender is a social construct that says you need to be masculine or you need to be feminine.
00:08:13.000Now, not a lot of people that I know actually care whether you act masculine or whether you act feminine, per se.
00:08:18.000But that's not choosing a gender, okay?
00:08:20.000That's just whether you act masculine or feminine.
00:08:22.000Then what the left does is they say, your masculinity or femininity, we can now read back into your sex.
00:08:27.000So in other words, if you are a feminine man, right?
00:08:29.000If you're a man who's biologically male and you act feminine, maybe you're a woman.
00:08:48.000It is your job as an adult to teach them about things that are complex and make the complex simple in ways that they can understand.
00:08:54.000And if when they hit 15, they're still having problems, then we can have a conversation about this.
00:08:58.000But this idea that three-year-olds are capable of choosing their gender is asinine.
00:09:03.000Anyone who has a 3-year-old will tell you this, and it is cruel to a 3-year-old to say to the 3-year-old that you're going to be allowed to define your own essence of the world, and you're going to be allowed to override your own biology.
00:09:12.000A 3-year-old is not capable of doing that.
00:09:14.000And there is no science to support this.
00:09:16.000What he has is anecdotal evidence saying that people who are 20 say, when I was 3, I felt like a girl in a boy's body.
00:09:22.000That is not scientific evidence that there is some brain test we can run that determines you are actually a girl in a boy's body.
00:09:28.000There's no scientific evidence to that effect.
00:09:30.000The idea that he is saying this is purely anti-scientific.
00:09:34.000But again, it's a political agenda masquerading as science.
00:09:36.000I'm old enough to remember when Bill Nye was on my television explaining that sex was a function of chromosomes.
00:10:09.000Bucking particular stereotypes about feminine and masculine, that I'm sure is true because people do it every day.
00:10:15.000What is not true is that you can change your sex, and the left conflates the two after separating them out.
00:10:20.000They like to pretend that everything that is feminine is not linked to sex, and then they pretend that if you are masculine as a girl, that means that you must be actually secretly a man.
00:10:28.000Or you can choose to be a man, which is just as scientifically stupid.
00:10:31.000Three-year-olds should not choose their own gender.
00:10:32.000Parents who do this to their child are doing something evil to their children.
00:10:36.000Your goal in life is not to confuse your children.
00:10:38.000Your goal in life is to simplify things for your children.
00:10:41.000Again, three-year-olds are not capable of making these types of decisions and damning a child to a lifetime of suffering.
00:10:49.000The studies show that 8 in 10 kids, who at any point suffer from any sort of gender identity issues, grow out of that by the time they hit their teenage years.
00:10:58.000And what he is saying is that we should tell all kids, 100 out of 100 kids, we should tell them all they can pick their sex.
00:11:03.000So now you're telling a bunch of 3 year olds, who are by nature dumb, that they can pick their sex.
00:11:14.000Let's even pretend that Bill Nye was right.
00:11:15.000Okay, let's pretend that it's biologically decided that you're a boy in a girl's body or some such nonsense, which is just not true.
00:11:21.000And again, there's no scientific evidence to suggest that you're a boy in a girl's body.
00:11:25.000In fact, even the people who say that brain scans show differences between transgender people and people who are not transgender, even those say
00:11:32.000That it is a transgender brain, but it does not mean that you have a woman's brain in a man's body.
00:11:36.000It just means that you have differences from the traditional male brain.
00:11:39.000Even that is really scanty evidence, but that's the furthest that good scientists will go.
00:11:43.000And to say anything different is just not scientific.
00:11:46.000But let's take this statistically and assume that the left is even correct.
00:11:48.000Okay, so, the transgender suicide rate over the course of a lifetime is 40%. 40%.
00:11:53.000Less than one person per 100 is going to be transgender in the United States.
00:11:57.000It's just, it's very, very rare, okay?
00:11:59.000And it's getting more common now because it's become kind of trendy, and because if you're a teenager and you want attention, then you can do it.
00:12:04.000Or if you have doubts, then we have decided that we are going to promulgate those doubts into reality.
00:12:08.000So, even if you're not just trying to do it for some nefarious reason, if you have doubts, we're now trying to reinforce those doubts as a society.
00:12:14.000But let's use the numbers on hand, so like, say one out of a hundred kids is, has gender identity disorder or gender dysphoria.
00:13:13.000Okay, now if you've increased the number of people who are engaging in this particular problem by three, if you have confused three more kids, then you now have four kids, let's not even take the ten, let's say you now have four out of a hundred who have a 20% suicide rate, as opposed to one out of a hundred who has a 40% suicide rate.
00:13:30.000You've not improved things, you've made things worse, in terms of people who are suicidal, for example.
00:13:35.000Okay, this is just to take the statistical case.
00:13:37.000But again, there is no moral case for confusing your child.
00:13:41.000Reinforcing sex differences is important, because if you don't want your child to suffer from tremendous cognitive dissonance, then the kid at least has to know about the standard, and then later they can choose whether or not they want to engage in the standard.
00:13:54.000But the fact is, the standard is the standard, and the standard is not entirely constructed by society.
00:13:59.000It wasn't like every society in the world came up with the idea that men were going to be soldiers,
00:14:02.000And women were going to be mothers, okay?
00:14:03.000There's a lot more to that than just societies deciding things.
00:14:54.000And as vanilla, I feel that I am the most natural of the ice creams, and therefore the rest of you should just go ahead and also be vanilla.
00:15:09.000I was there for a second, so obviously the implication is here, there are a bunch of religious fanatics who want everybody to be straight, and if they're not straight, then we're gonna force them to be straight.
00:15:16.000Okay, a couple of things that are worth noting here.
00:15:19.000The reality is, that biologically speaking, it is more conducive to evolution and the species
00:17:30.000Okay, so in other words, everything is natural except for heterosexuality, got it?
00:17:35.000The bottom line is that all religious people are secretly repressed people who want to have orgies with members of the same sex, bisexuals, transgender people, and if they could just taste all the other flavors of the rainbow, everything would be wonderful.
00:17:46.000I love this idea that biology does not dictate heterosexuality, but it dictates
00:17:50.000That you are supposed to have sex with everything that moves.
00:17:53.000Okay, there is no scientific basis for anything that is in this video.
00:17:57.000This idea, like, I guess the idea is that everybody's sexuality is on a spectrum.
00:18:00.000First of all, here's what the science actually says about this.
00:18:02.000What it says is that female sexuality is more malleable based on environment and genetics.
00:18:18.000The bottom line is that when they say that basically straight people are secretly gay, but you can't say that a gay person is secretly straight or has tendencies in that direction.
00:18:48.000I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at MackWeldon.com.
00:18:52.000So, if you are looking for the best underwear, you're looking for the best sweatshirts, you're looking for the best comfortable wear, Mack Weldon is better than whatever you are currently wearing.
00:19:17.000As I said, I have a bunch of Mack Weldon underwear, and I threw out all the other underwear that I own because these are super-duper comfortable, and they also hold up really well in the wash.
00:19:26.000They're not gonna fall apart after seven wears.
00:19:34.000Meanwhile, in the non-Bill Nye news, and I know we just spent a lot of time on Bill Nye, but that's because I think that this is used as propaganda by the left.
00:19:40.000Again, the idea, there's also something else here that I think is worth noting on that idiotic ice cream video.
00:20:01.000The conflation of biology with morality is really stupid.
00:20:04.000The idea that we're all biologically built to have sex with everything and therefore it's good and anybody who says that it's bad is wrong.
00:20:11.000Okay, biology does not make things right.
00:20:13.000There are a lot of things that are biological that are not right.
00:20:16.000There are people who have... we all have a tendency
00:20:18.000I have a tendency to be promiscuous because I am a male.
00:20:20.000I have a biological drive to have sex with many women.
00:20:23.000I'm extraordinarily monogamous because I have a religious belief and a moral belief that it would be cruel to my wife to cheat on her, and it would be really bad to cheat on my wife.
00:20:33.000That's a good thing that we have that as a society, even if morality is bucking biology.
00:20:39.000To quote the old movie, The African Queen, with Catherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, nature is, in many ways, what we were put here to rise above.
00:20:47.000The idea that nature is supposed to dictate your behavior is really puerile and stupid, but it is also the basis of the left's political viewpoint.
00:21:21.000So we will be doing the mailbag tomorrow.
00:21:23.000And if you want to become an annual subscriber, you get a free copy of the Arroyo fictional film set on the southern border about why we need that Trump wall.
00:21:29.000And why it's stupid that the Republicans aren't going to build that Trump wall.
00:21:32.000DailyWired.com to get that subscription.
00:21:34.000Or if you just want to listen later, go over to iTunes or SoundCloud.