Yo, Science

(Intro - Guy on Youtube Reading Isaac Asimov) There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." (Chorus - Mr. Wheels & Kabuto the Python) [Ali G - "Yo, science...what is it all about?"] [Richard Dawkins - "Evidence"] [Ali G - "Is it good, or is it wack? Yo..."] [Neil DeGrasse Tyson - "Science"] [Fiorello LaGuardia - "What does it all mean?"] [Richard Dawkins - "Reason"] [Nigel Lambert - "Look around you"] [Ghostface Killah - "I revolve around sciences"] Yo, science [Ali G - "What is it all about?"] [Richard Dawkins - "Evidence"] Ayo it's science [Ali G - "Is it good, or is it wack?"] Ayo it's science [Bill Nye - "Science"] [Fiorello LaGuardia - "What does it all mean?"] Ayo it's science [Nigel Lambert - "Look around you"] [Ghostface Killah - "I revolve around sciences"] (Verse 1) Ayo, science Lots of people want to ban it And even those who love it often do not understand it So can it, Kabuto's about to get his science on And discuss some popular misconceptions and say why they're wrong For example: human evolution Is a subject that makes me want to shoot a huge hadouken Like when an atheist is all debating a creationist On evolution making mad mistakes as they're explaining it Like, people think that evolution happens on a scale And that a human's more evolved and therefore better than a whale Not so There is no end point of all creation Just selection for an ever-changing niche--it's adaptation Second, that selection happens over greater populations It's an average, not a direct sign of deformation So if stupid people die, you shouldn't let it fuel your narcisissm Listen smug fuck, it's due to luck more than to Darwinism Another thing is cancer, and not to say I love it But every year I see a chain letter sent by some kid That says that new experiments have cured it in a mouse But that Big Pharma doesn't want to let us all find out By now they've got to have a couple dozen different cures And if that were true, you bet it would be scandalous for sure Only what helps a mouse get better rarely helps a person So a healthy mouse is just another lead that's kinda working Good news, but not a cure for cancer--no conspiracy Just press releases trying to get some funding, are you feeling me? And pandas are bears, Yellowstone ain’t gonna blow And if a shark attacks you, punch it in the gills and not the nose (Chorus) (Verse 2) Next, let me run it down, let you know what’s up With the climate change, some of y’all got it mad fucked up First, scientists, including in the National Academy Were aware of global warming at least as far back as the seventies Speaking of which, “global warming” is a fair term to use-- Although local temps may seem just to fluctuate to you The average global trend in temperatures is pointing upward Causing greater variation among highs and lows We suffer from an ill-informed community of pundits, who trumpet The views of some dissenters who only number in the hundreds The percent of climatologists endorsing the consensus Is in the very high nineties Been high since like the nineties Some cite the panic over global cooling in ‘76 As evidence that scientists are, every now and then, full of shit But the panic then was minimal, consensus nonexistent So don't suggest that this is something to compare--because it isn't Some will tell you it's a natural cycle And if you peep the long-term graphs you can imagine it if you try to But while climate cycles do occur, they happen very slowly And none account for rapid warming on this scale, so they can blow me And every scientific organization of any standing Has endorsed the view that climate change is something we have a hand in Dissenters take their papes from Shell or Exxon just to get work But there’s really no debate among the reputable experts (Chorus)