RE: Milo Yiannopoulos; the man twitter banned got a book deal. Currently #2 on Amazon.
December 30, 2016 at 9:30 am
But it's his outspoken nature and willingness to say outrageous things that makes him so popular. It's what I think of as the "Howard Stern effect." Someone who is willing to say things that most people refrain from (out of a sense of decorum, or decency, or simply not being a raging dickhead) are often very popular for that reason. Especially if they don't back down when they're challenged.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
