[MD] Global Warming: Science or Politics?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Case <Case at iSpots.com>:

> Ian,
> 
> My problem with your post was that you insert a kind of in-house argument
> about the nature of academic discourse into a thread where Platt is arguing
> that academics are a bunch of bed wetting liberals crying wolf so they can
> justify marching people off to Gulags. 

For years they have been marching people off to "sensitivity training," better
known in Chinese communist circles as "brain rinse." Once you establish that
there is only one right way to think, the next step is full totalitarian
censorship.
 
> I do not think statistics in
> scientific journals can be manipulated in this way. And of such manipulation
> survives peer review there are plenty of journal readers to correct the
> problems. 

Except in the case of global warming, those who attempt to do so are vilified,
like being compared to holocaust deniers.

> Platt would put "some-guy's-blog" on an equal footing with Science and
> Nature.

An accusation without evidence. Also note how Case capitalizes Science and
Nature as if they are God. Not surprising since that's how the acolytes of 
science think of it. 

> Once again the point in this thread was Platt's contention that academics
> are a bunch of bedwetting liberals who throw up obstacles to prevent right
> thinking good Americans from having their say. We are safe in just ignoring
> the scientific community because they are no better than lawyers, they are
> just grinding personal axes and if they were worth a crap they would get
> real jobs...

Wild distortion. What we shouldn't do is put the scientific community on a 
sacrosanct pedestal to be worshiped as the dispenser of all Truth. God knows
that "community" has been complicit in fostering errors including promoting
eugenics, banning DDT and predicting global cooling.     

> I have recently renounced tolerance as a virtue. 

Please spread the word to your liberal friends.

> We are dealing here with people who think that the extinction of a species
> is no big deal; especially if we can save thirty cents a month on our power
> bill. It doesn't really matter if the ice caps melt because it could be good
> for the real estate market. It's ok if we pollute the air and water because
> our descendants will be clever enough to figure out something else to drink
> and breathe.

Fear mongering at its best . . . the precursor of bigger government and loss
of liberty.






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