Catastrophist

Jean Burgess, who I think totally correctly debunked the "catastrophist" narrative, as I later dubbed it, about the death of the newspaper. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Even when the media was not “picking a winner” in the science, it supported the catastrophist message in its editorial decisions, choosing to cover (for example) ad nauseum a 30-year low in Arctic sea ice but failing to even mention a 30-year high in Antarctic sea ice which occurred on nearly the same day (more here). ❋ Unknown (2009)

This removes the keystone of the catastrophist arguement, which is the only one which justifies emergency action. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm not a catastrophist about these, but it's certainly not that I trust us to make the right decisions; I just think we're going to see some radical upheavals that make the transhuman cybertopia look unlikely at more than a temporary subcultural level among a group limited by class and location. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

In this debate, Agassiz was a catastrophist, believing that God created species, then wiped them all out and started with new species. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If you're a catastrophist, you want to take steps that would have a huge impact on peoples lives before anything happened. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mainly I feel that the bat-winged model is a legacy of the flawed "orthodox" view of ornithodires as maladaptive failures, that was so common in the pre-Bakker era, i.e. a very negative and catastrophist view of these creatures. ❋ Peter Bond (2009)

I should warn you that my chatter on this matter is ... well, catastrophist. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For years now, I have been accused by sisters and brothers from right to left of being "catastrophist." ❋ Unknown (2008)

The catastrophist in me invented ten different ruinous scenarios, all of which centered around sexually transmitted diseases and grievous bodily harm being meted out by a gang of angry Turkish gentlemen. ❋ Douglas Kennedy (2007)

Both critics such as skeptics and members of the mainstream scientific community, and also some EU advocates, have called EU a catastrophist pseudoscience, as there is neither sufficient evidence, mathematical models, nor peer review, to treat it as a scientific theory. ❋ Cliff Pickover (2007)

PS: a similar governative conference was held in Rome in 2005, under the previous governement, but with scientists to debate, and no alarmist/catastrophist claim was made. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He was also keenly interested in the controversial “catastrophist” theories of Immanuel Velikovsky, callingWorlds in Collision “indispensable.” ❋ Lynn Picknett (2006)

Right away, upon moving here, I became something of an earthquake connoisseur, a specialty catastrophist. ❋ Amy Wilentz (2006)

"Dude, it's one stupid term-paper" "Yeah but if I don't do well on this one then my GPA falls and I'll never get into a good college and I won't get a good job and that will [DEVASTATE] my mother and she'll commit suicide and I'll have to take care of my little brother and he'll get [Lupus], need a kidney and I will be forced to sell my ass on the street [because I can't] afford the surgery because I don't have health-care all because I failed this stupid paper!" "Stop being such a catastrophist, it's not even worth 10% of your grade!!!" ❋ Jaci_b (2007)

Being a [catastrophist], Benji’s mother imagined her son [falling through] the [glass table] every time he tried to climb on It. ❋ Pumpkin123 (2018)

Yeah I think that I have NCCD (narcissistic conceited catastrophist disorder) . Yeah [that kid] [Isaac] [says] he has NCCD (narcissistic conceited catastrophist disorder). ❋ The Goat 16 (2021)