¡“Feeling Pinkie Keen” by Dave Polsky is AntiScience! · 5:02am Nov 17th, 2013
WhiteEyes:
> "The irony is, Pinkie Keen was written by an atheist trying to do a "don't judge people with different beliefs" moral, but as an atheist he really didn't get how to represent faith in stuff that cannot be proven, so pseudoscience and magic powers are go was his basic plan."
For an atheist, Dave Polsky does a great impression of a CreaTard. I already wrote a rant, which I shall quote in a minute, but before then, I shall state that in mine humble opinion, S01E15 “Feeling Pinkie Keen” the second worst episode because of the antiscience. The worst episode, in mine humble opinion is S03E03 Too Many Pinkies because of its genocide. ¿Who wrote the genocide in S03E03? ¡Dave Polsky!
Cindy Morrow and M. A. Larson leave the writing staff. If I had my way, I would keep them and get rid of Dave Polsky and Merriweather "EveryPony Is A FlankHole" Williams. With their genocide, cynicism (not to be mistaken for Scientific Skepticism which is good), and antiscience, those 2 just do not understand the show.
I originally posted this rant on http://FriendshipIsDragons.Com:
Antiscience is wrong and Twilight sparkle acts like a CreaTard with her CargoCultScience:
In S01E15 “Feeling Pinkie Keen”, Dave Polsky gives us the sort of StrawMan of Science one would expect from a CreaTard (Flat/Young-Earth Geocentric Creationist). He has Twilight Sparkle perform CargoCultScience (something looking superficially like science, but is not). The first step in investigating a phenomenon is to determine whether it exists. Otherwise one ends up like those stupid ghosthunters running around in the dark yelling “⸘What’s That‽”.
Rather than put a saladbowl on Pinkamena Diane Pie, she should have used a timer, coin, light objects, and a notebook:
Every minute, either drop a light object on Pinkamena Diane Pie or do not. Let the coin decide. Record what the Pinkie-Sense predicts versus the whether the coin told her to drop an object or not. After about an hour, she should have enough data for statistical analysis.
Instead, Twilight Sparkle does CargoCultScience, gives up, and them decides that ponies should turn their backs on science and technology and return to living in caves and defecating in their drinking water.
This is the stupid Friendshipreport from the episode:
> ”Dear Princess Celestia,“
> ”I am happy to report that I now realize there are wonderful things in this world you just can’t explain, but that doesn’t necessarily make them any less true. It just means you have to choose to believe in them. And sometimes it takes a friend to show you the way.“
> ”Always your faithful student,“
> ”Twilight Sparkle“
Also, in the episode, Twilight Sparkle conveniently forgets that she can teleport, so she has to make a literal leap of faith. ¡She literally stands on a soapbox! This is how I would have wrote the FriendShipRePort:
> ”Dear Princess Celestia,“
> ”Today reminded me that Science is not a body of knowledge, but a way of discovering how the universe works. One must gather data, form hypotheses explaining the data, test the hypotheses, reject falsified hypotheses, and repeat. That is how we discover truth. Currently, I Scientifically investigate a phenomenon called Pinkie-Sense.“
> ”Always your faithful student,“
> ”Twilight Sparkle“
S01E09 "bridleGossip by Amy Keating Rogers is a much better episode because it is proscience, proskepticism, antipseudoscience, cheerful and totally lacks cynicism. My only problem with it, is that it shows that the Education-System in Equestria is terrible —— “¿What is a Zebra?”.
I'm really tired of people bashing this episode's moral just because they think it's anti-science. I suggest you check out my defense on this episode so you'll see why I find this episode's moral to actually be very family-friendly.