[I Buried My Guns]

The growing irrelevance of the complicit, dying Mainstream Media: Now there’s a 3-alarm story!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Can there be any doubt about NYT being a Commie loving outfit?

Related thread:

The Green Mask Is Being Peeled Away From The CO²mmunists – All Eyes Now On Copenhagen

[VR-21]

The time-honored leftist tactic of dismissing any damming evidence or facts as the rantings of unenlightened, truculent roundheads.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[ichabod1]

Science advances one funeral at a time.

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off

Climategate rundown (extensive)

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Ping me if you find one I've missed.

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Good catch

[KarlInOhio]

The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.

Odd. I don't recall that reason ever being used whenever the New York Times "obtained" copies of classified documents and printed them.

[dennisw]

Posted by: Gene Man  

Dec 07, 09:54 PM

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The current scandalous state of science traces to World War II and the fact that science and technology significantly helped win the war. In the long Cold War that followed, the 'science race' between the US and the USSR fed tax dollars without end into the science machine, and the consequent rise in power and prestige of the top scientists worked as always to absolutely corrupt the system. Probably, at small colleges and small companies there exist classically 'pure' scientists, but at the major league universities the game has been lost. This is of course reflected in all of the professional journals. Today, for political reasons, the field of "climate science" is probably the most corrupt, because the stakes are so high. After all, the leftist goal of world domination can actually be rationally 'justified' if we truly need to drastically change our way of life to avoid climate catastrophe.

Other fields are not immune from this sickness, but since the stakes are lower the scale is smaller. In physics the reigning theories have been bankrupt for almost half a century, but once you have two generations of physicists that subscribe to these theories, then they are cast in concrete. No one who has worked to achieve a significant place in the system is willing to rock the boat.

Gigantic institutions that have been taken over by unions to provide a lifetime job (tenure or govt worker) followed by a handsome pension automatically become corrupt. As a rule no one will make decisions (see 'Major Hassan') for fear of rocking the (politically correct) boat. Only a crisis will change anything and then only as long as required to stop the boat from rocking.

From the perspective of one who spent eleven years working for the government and four decades as an independent small businessman/scientist, it seems almost hopeless. The "hive mind" that is required to spend one's life in a large institution is currently on display in "Climategate" but it is everywhere.

As one commenter on another thread expressed it: "Well, I can't trust the government. I can't trust the media. I can't trust Wall street and now I can't trust the scientific community. Thank God there is still professional wrestling."

It may not be hopeless, but it sure is discouraging.

http://comments.americanthinker.com/read/42323/494229.html

 

[GOPJ]

And the answer is tied up in complex science that is difficult even for experts to understand...

Bull. That's the crap liberals use for everything - too "complex" for mere mortals. Yeah, right. Maybe it's not too "complex" for most people, just too complex for "can't do math" journalists.