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Remarkable Public Support for Criminalizing Scientific Dissent
Evolution News and Views ^ | November 13, 2015 | David Klinghoffer

Posted on 11/17/2015 10:46:38 AM PST by Heartlander

Remarkable Public Support for Criminalizing Scientific Dissent

David Klinghoffer November 13, 2015 3:41 AM | Permalink

Following on Dr. Egnor's comments of yesterday ("Criminalizing Scientific Dissent"), I would add that support for prosecuting climate skeptics is not limited, as you might think, to a fanatical elite in the media or academia.

Rasmussen Reports headlines the news about its new survey, "Little Support for Punishing Global Warming Foes." But the Power Line blog points out that the survey's own figures suggest otherwise. The question posed was this:

Should the government investigate and prosecute scientists and others including major corporations who question global warming?

Power Line:

In response, 27% of Democrats called for prosecuting global warming realists. (Remarkably, 11% of Republicans did, too.)

Whatever your political party, these figures say something remarkable about the nation's state of mind. Some Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls who have qualified for the recent televised debates enjoy support well under 11 percent, yet their candidacies are judged to be potentially viable and not mere fringe phenomena.

27 and 11 percent? By contrast, 3.2 percent of Americans are vegetarians. 1 percent ride a bike to work. 2 percent live on a farm. 10 percent own a fish as a pet.

The idea of "prosecuting scientists" with dissenting views on climate change is a minority opinion but, by the numbers alone, apparently far from just cranky, bizarre, or irrelevant. And you think that scientists with dissenting views on Darwinian theory don't hear such things and resolve yet again to keep their secret to themselves?



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1 posted on 11/17/2015 10:46:38 AM PST by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander

More evidence of the fascism of the progressive left.


2 posted on 11/17/2015 10:49:15 AM PST by TBP (Nous sommes tout Francais.)
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To: Heartlander

This is getting scary.


3 posted on 11/17/2015 10:51:44 AM PST by Duckdog (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean people aren't out to get you.)
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To: Heartlander

If scientists do not question global warming or any other theory/hypothesis, they cease to become scientists. Consensus is not reached until the evidence is critically reviewed over and over and over.

These people want to achieve political consensus not scientific consensus. Let’s not confuse the two.


4 posted on 11/17/2015 10:52:10 AM PST by neocon1984
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To: Heartlander

Taken as benchmarks of the level of uncritical liberal obedience to collective hatred and violence, Mizzou and Yale are scary. So global warming fanaticism is right up there.

This is Obama’s “change.”


5 posted on 11/17/2015 10:54:45 AM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Heartlander

What would Galileo do?


6 posted on 11/17/2015 10:55:22 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Heartlander

Climatology is pseudo-science at best. I’d more take the ravings of a witch-doctor.

It’s a good thing this wasn’t the norm at the Manhattan Project. But outside FR, I wouldn’t expect many to even know what that is.

So much for any general understanding of the scientific method.


7 posted on 11/17/2015 10:55:28 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Heartlander

What would Galileo do?


8 posted on 11/17/2015 10:55:28 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Heartlander

What the he11 happened to “liberals”? you know, “celebrate diversity” and “freedom of speech” and “f#@% censorship” etc.?

Rhetorical question, I know. “Liberal” was just a front until they garnered enough power to beat people into submission.


9 posted on 11/17/2015 10:56:15 AM PST by ctdonath2 (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
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To: Heartlander

So ted Kacyznski was a visionary, not a terrorist?


10 posted on 11/17/2015 10:59:16 AM PST by wideawake
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To: TBP

This is the kind of nonsense the Constitution is designed to protect against. It looks more and more like we are going to have to mobilize to defend it.


11 posted on 11/17/2015 11:04:31 AM PST by RatRipper (The biggest threat to US national security is our government and those in it.)
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To: Heartlander
LUCY
And way up there,
The little stars and planets,
Make the rain,
That falls in showers.
And when it's cold and winter is upon us,
The snow comes up,
Just like the flowers.

CHARLIE BROWN
Now, Lucy, I know that's wrong. Snow doesn't come up,
it comes down.

LUCY
After it comes up, the wind blows it around so it
looks like it's coming down but actually it comes up
out of the ground- like grass. It comes up, Charlie Brown,
snow comes up!

CHARLIE BROWN
Oh, good grief!

Little known things. Question Lucy and go to jail!

-PJ

12 posted on 11/17/2015 11:06:44 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Heartlander

America’s version of the Chinese Red Guards are now in training on many college and university campuses. The only good note is that it ended very badly for the RGs, after millions of innocents were murdered and jailed, expect the same here, if allowed to fester.


13 posted on 11/17/2015 11:08:17 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Heartlander

Try it you left wing tyrants. I’ll introduce you to the 2nd Amendment personally.


14 posted on 11/17/2015 11:10:07 AM PST by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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To: Heartlander

Science without dissent is not science.

It is becoming readily apparent that the structure of the university system these days bears more than a passing resemblance to the Roman Catholic Church in the years leading up to the Protestant Reformation— complete with an autocratic hierarchy, roving inquisitors, land wealthy but revenue constrained and with a major source of revenue threatened. I’m talking circumstance here, not theology.

As the old saying goes, “Sacred cows make the best burgers”. I’ll have mine with a well-toasted bun, please.


15 posted on 11/17/2015 11:10:59 AM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: Heartlander
Modern Lysenkoism in action.

Those who refuse to learn from the lessons learned from the mistakes of the past history are doomed to re live those mistakes

Russia has still not recovered from the damage done by Lysenko .

Next time around the damage will be much worse.

I am not optimistic

16 posted on 11/17/2015 11:13:05 AM PST by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Miller)
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To: Heartlander

Skeptics of climate alarmism and Darwinism are already effectively second-class citizens, so it does not surprise me that liberals want to send us to the gas chambers. I would also guess that 27% of Democrats wanting us prosecuted is far too conservative of an estimate.

This is an excellent example as to why liberalism cannot coexist with an orderly, just, and free society. They are never satisfied with disagreement: either you march in lockstep with Stalin, or you die.


17 posted on 11/17/2015 11:14:33 AM PST by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: Heartlander

Just like Galileo arguing about the Earth revolving around the Sun ...


18 posted on 11/17/2015 11:15:14 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: neocon1984
If scientists do not question global warming or any other theory/hypothesis, they cease to become scientists. Consensus is not reached until the evidence is critically reviewed over and over and over.

Try explaining that to the 27% when their IQ is in the 50s

19 posted on 11/17/2015 11:18:26 AM PST by digger48
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To: Heartlander

bkmk


20 posted on 11/17/2015 11:34:05 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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