I started reading an article with a click-bait headline:
"Why you should stop believing in evolution"
I immediately saw the cop-out subhead:
"You don't believe in it — you either understand it or you don't"
Well, this is crass equivocation on what "believe" means. To believe, in everyday usage, is not to "take on faith". It is, "to accept as true," whether such acceptance is based on scientific evidence, religious belief, etc.
And then I got to this sentence:
"Humanity, after all, is but one ugly branch on the big tree of life."
Well, my intelligence had already been insulted... but now my looks were being insulted too!
So I stopped reading.
Pseudo-intellectual snark,
I consign you to the dark.
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