Oxyclean has saved countless shirts…
Yes this guy is pretty badass, he just went to India in the middle of a war and help them, thats badass
people like this deserve to be put up on a pedestal. i don’t give a fuck about the details, because people much less deserving get their faces on every magazine on the planet day to day.
good work, phrost.
Although he has saved a billion lives relatively “directly”, if we’re willing to be deterministic about things, there are scientific and technological achievements which may have saved even more lives, prevented more deaths, and allowed more people to live in the first place. Not only that, but scientific achievements are the stepping stools for other achievements to come afterward them (some more than others obviously). So to say that someone is the most badass scientist ever because they’ve saved a billion lives in the short term seems to be a limited way of looking at things. To know who the most badass scientist has been as of yet, we would have to understand the full scope of human history, and understand the most far reaching consequence of every achievement up till this point. That being said we can at least guess who the most badass scientist is, I’d bet on the guy who invented fire, and if our criteria for being a scientist is more specific than that, idk, i’d bet on newton probably.
It is ridiculous that our scientists and doctors are not bigger celebrities then some blonde tramp who couldn’t fuck her way out of a wet paper bag.
Seriously.
You spelled Rosalind Franklin wrong.
Also, Phrost, I approve of the selection.
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Also, Phrost, I approve of the selection.[/quote]
And I approve of this thread. A scientist being given badass of the month on a site which places so much weight on rational thinking is only fitting. That three pages (to date) of debate follow on the issue between people who punch each other in the face for fun?
I’m welling up.
I’d never heard of him until his radio obit on NPR. The man was like a science missionary, going to the worst places on Earth for his whole damn life just to keep other people from starving. He made Gandhi look like an idiot in comparison.
Also, the photo of him in the unitard indicates that he might in fact have been able to kick at least some ass at the collegiate level, which means he trained alive. So the haters can collectively fuck themselves and eat a bowl of anything and thank Norman Borlaug for it because he probably helped make it.
(and saving evil people is morally equivalent to saving good people, you zero-sum jackasses. You should pay more attention in Philosophy.)
Another example of a guy who wasn’t famous but saved a hell of a lot of lives:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Hilleman
On the other hand, some of these great humanitarian scientists would perhaps prefer to remain anonymous. Jonas Salk actually did get the fame and recognition (and a day in 1985 dedicated to his honour by the US Government), and was somewhat unhappy about many of the impacts his celebrity had on his ability to continue doing useful work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk
Personally, I’d rather see a few million kids taking Hilleman and Salk and Borlaug as their role models than Eminem and Britney Spears, even if some of them would rather shun the limelight.
Honestly, when I first clicked this link, I figured it would be some old time boxer or wrestler. I didn’t recognize the younger Norman Borlaug, but I have definitely heard of him before and completely agree that he is a badass.
You did good, Phrost.
[quote=HappyOldGuy;2221028]He got basically every prize that it is possible for a scientist to receive.
He isn’t even the most impactful nobel laureate biologist out there.
(That would pretty much have to be Watson and Crick)
He accomplished amazing stuff, and if saving lives makes you a badass, then he is the badass of the decade. But the unsung hero thing is crap. He is as celebrated as any scientist in recent memory.
He was also a partisan is some messy debates about development, which is the agenda behind P&T making a stink about him on Bullshit.[/quote]
Hmm, I suppose Al gore is a more deserving candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize? I ROFL in your face sir.
[quote=3moose1;2221330]It is ridiculous that our scientists and doctors are not bigger celebrities then some blonde tramp who couldn’t fuck her way out of a wet paper bag.
Seriously.[/quote]
geniuses developed new technologies that enabled the unfettered breeding of dumb fucks that idolize spoiled whores. anyone ever seen the movie idiocracy? is it a good thing this “badass” as phrost named him saved these backward shits from darwin? all in favor of eugenics say aye.
If you’ve never actually suffered from starvation you’ve got no right to complain about what Borlaug has done.
And if you want to blame someone for overpopulation, look at the Catholic church and the Pope who go into Africa preaching that condoms and birth control are sins.
Education is the solution to overpopulation, not passive eugenics through starvation. The reason families have more kids in the first place is to offset the number of possible deaths among them and to ensure the parents are cared for in their old age. Educated countries are seeing a significant decline in the birth rate.
So if you’re going to bitch about someone who prevented brown people from starving, take a week off eating yourself and then get back to me.
[quote=Phrost;2221720]If you’ve never actually suffered from starvation you’ve got no right to complain about what Borlaug has done.
And if you want to blame someone for overpopulation, look at the Catholic church and the Pope who go into Africa preaching that condoms and birth control are sins.
Education is the solution to overpopulation, not passive eugenics through starvation. The reason families have more kids in the first place is to offset the number of possible deaths among them and to ensure the parents are cared for in their old age. Educated countries are seeing a significant decline in the birth rate.
So if you’re going to bitch about someone who prevented brown people from starving, take a week off eating yourself and then get back to me.[/quote]
Mind if I borrow these talking points? My previous dialectics on agriculture and overpopulation always stalled with prima-facie-wrong yet logically-sound bullshit like “let em starve.”
Seeing as we are now officially the only ones who know who this guy is, we should probably include something more martial when we pass on his legend. Like maybe he saved a billion lives by fighting off an alien invasion with his bare hands. Just for good measure.
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So if you’re going to bitch about someone who prevented brown people from starving, take a week off eating yourself and then get back to me.[/quote]
first off, fuck you
second, insinuating i’m a racist shows your maturity level and ablility to develop a rational position on this subject
and third, fuck you
this man accomplished nothing except to prolong the enevitable. you could say that by preventing the deaths of a billion he caused the suffering of a trillion.
and what does any of this have to do with bullshido? have you forgoten why you started this site? pull your head out of your ass.
No, he made it possible for the world to support more people. I am a people. I like people. So this is a good thing. If you are a people but you don’t like people, then remember, down the road, not across the river.
And while I’m here…
[quote=Rough&Tumble;2221662]Hmm, I suppose Al gore is a more deserving candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize? I ROFL in your face sir.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21262661/[/quote]
I don’t judge your lifestyle. Just make sure you don’t get splinters fucking that straw man.
i like people. and i prefer people as people and not people as numbers. whats your number?
but anyways, how many ninjas did this guy kill?
Chubbychaser, you should be officially banned from eating Borlaug™ brand edible stuff.
You sound like you’re still on mothermilk yet anyhow.
Besides, for a guy spewing F.U.'s to Phrost several times in each post you have the face to preach about “maturity level”?
Agreed. I admit that when he died, AR15.com had a link to “The Greatest Man That Ever Lived” so I had to click it. It led me to the Penn & Teller video from above. Certainly a noteworthy badass and extraordinary human being.
Eugenics and social darwinism are regularly associated with racist and white supremacy movements. The “backward shits” you’re talking about are usually backward because they’ve been beaten and oppressed so much by those very movements, who then turn around and blame them for their own troubles.
Even if I don’t agree that this man is the greatest human being to walk the planet, your line of thinking is greatly flawed.