(Intro - Guy on Youtube Reading Isaac Asimov)

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

(Chorus - Mr. Wheels & Kabuto the Python)

[Ali G - "Yo, science...what is it all about?"] [Richard Dawkins - "Evidence"]

[Ali G - "Is it good, or is it wack? Yo..."] [Neil DeGrasse Tyson - "Science"]

[Fiorello LaGuardia - "What does it all mean?"] [Richard Dawkins - "Reason"]

[Nigel Lambert - "Look around you"] [Ghostface Killah - "I revolve around sciences"]

Yo, science

[Ali G - "What is it all about?"] [Richard Dawkins - "Evidence"]

Ayo it's science

[Ali G - "Is it good, or is it wack?"]

Ayo it's science

[Bill Nye - "Science"] [Fiorello LaGuardia - "What does it all mean?"]

Ayo it's science

[Nigel Lambert - "Look around you"] [Ghostface Killah - "I revolve around sciences"]

(Verse 1)

Ayo, science

Lots of people want to ban it

And even those who love it often do not understand it

So can it, Kabuto's about to get his science on

And discuss some popular misconceptions and say why they're wrong

For example: human evolution

Is a subject that makes me want to shoot a huge hadouken

Like when an atheist is all debating a creationist

On evolution making mad mistakes as they're explaining it

Like, people think that evolution happens on a scale

And that a human's more evolved and therefore better than a whale

Not so

There is no end point of all creation

Just selection for an ever-changing niche--it's adaptation

Second, that selection happens over greater populations

It's an average, not a direct sign of deformation

So if stupid people die, you shouldn't let it fuel your narcisissm

Listen smug fuck, it's due to luck more than to Darwinism

Another thing is cancer, and not to say I love it

But every year I see a chain letter sent by some kid

That says that new experiments have cured it in a mouse

But that Big Pharma doesn't want to let us all find out

By now they've got to have a couple dozen different cures

And if that were true, you bet it would be scandalous for sure

Only what helps a mouse get better rarely helps a person

So a healthy mouse is just another lead that's kinda working

Good news, but not a cure for cancer--no conspiracy

Just press releases trying to get some funding, are you feeling me?

And pandas are bears, Yellowstone ain’t gonna blow

And if a shark attacks you, punch it in the gills and not the nose

(Chorus)

(Verse 2)

Next, let me run it down, let you know what’s up

With the climate change, some of y’all got it mad fucked up

First, scientists, including in the National Academy

Were aware of global warming at least as far back as the seventies

Speaking of which, “global warming” is a fair term to use--

Although local temps may seem just to fluctuate to you

The average global trend in temperatures is pointing upward

Causing greater variation among highs and lows

We suffer from an ill-informed community of pundits, who trumpet

The views of some dissenters who only number in the hundreds

The percent of climatologists endorsing the consensus

Is in the very high nineties

Been high since like the nineties

Some cite the panic over global cooling in ‘76

As evidence that scientists are, every now and then, full of shit

But the panic then was minimal, consensus nonexistent

So don't suggest that this is something to compare--because it isn't

Some will tell you it's a natural cycle

And if you peep the long-term graphs you can imagine it if you try to

But while climate cycles do occur, they happen very slowly

And none account for rapid warming on this scale, so they can blow me

And every scientific organization of any standing

Has endorsed the view that climate change is something we have a hand in

Dissenters take their papes from Shell or Exxon just to get work

But there’s really no debate among the reputable experts

(Chorus)