Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Why I hate Scott Adams, pt. 243

Scott Adams, creator and current author of the cartoon Dilbert, is a dick. He pretends to be his own fan online and is a horrible boss on par with that which he depicts in his comic. Not to mention, last year he distorted behavior ecology in animals to justify sexual abuse towards women.

Now, see today's comic:

February 21, 2012
Scientist (since when has Dilbert been a scientist?) Dilbert discovers the Higgs Boson, dubbed by the media as "the God Particle," that is among the hypotheses hoping to be experimentally supported by the Large Hadron Collider. Dilbert discovers the Higgs Boson, and it proves to be evidence for the Abrahamic monotheistic god, which Scientist Dilbert chooses to ignore.

There's no way this comic is anything but malevolent towards science. My initial interpretation is that Adams is saying "scientists can easily find evidence for God, but choose to ignore it due to their Atheist Bias." Then I softened when I remembered the media calls the Higgs Boson "the God Particle" and decided it was just a lazy joke, absolutely perfect for the pages of syndicated daily newspaper comics. But that would have been Dilbert looking surprised in the last panel with explanation points over his head, not destroying evidence on a humongous advance in particle physics.

I don't even want to get into if there could even be "evidence for an omnipresent being" or if "atheist bias" is even possible.

Scott Adams is popularizing distrust towards science and I hate him. This isn't as bad as "male humans are inherently rape-y," however it is syndicated in "2000 newspapers," which I imagine are read more than his blog.
Posted by Clifford at 7:22 PM

3 comments:

  1. I guess I saw it as Dilbert concluding that major monotheisms are nothing but trouble. In other words, even if they're true we're better off not getting sucked into them and building arks and other such ridiculous nonsense. Scott Adams is irritating in a lot of ways, but I don't remember him being a religious apologist.

    On the other hand, I do see that your interpretation could also be the intended one, so it's possible I've missed some other annoying thing about him. Do you know of any additional info that might help determine which it is?

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  2. I read it the way Anne did. I am a Dilbert fan (though not of Adams or his often weird beliefs).

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  3. Or, you know... It's a joke

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