Beam Me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/10/2009 5:54:35 PM PST by markomalley
The Met Office, Britain's national weather service, "has embarked on an urgent exercise to bolster the reputation of climate-change science" in the wake of a whistle-blower's revelation of widespread misconduct by climate scientists, London's Times reports:
More than 1,700 scientists have agreed to sign a statement defending the "professional integrity" of global warming research. They were responding to a round-robin request from the Met Office, which has spent four days collecting signatures. . . .
One scientist told The Times he felt under pressure to sign. "The Met Office is a major employer of scientists and has long had a policy of only appointing and working with those who subscribe to their views on man-made global warming," he said.
The concept of scientists--or journalists, or artists--signing a petition is ludicrous. The idea is that they are lending their authority to whatever cause the petition represents--but in fact they are undermining that authority, which is based on the presumption that they think for themselves.
The problem with the petition as a form is also a problem with the Met Office petition's substance. The purpose of the petition is to shore up scientists' authority by vouching for their integrity. But signing a loyalty oath under pressure from the government is itself a corrupt act. Anyone who signs this petition thereby raises doubts about his own integrity. And once again, the question arises: Why should any layman regard global warmism as credible when the "consensus" rests on political machinations, statistical tricks and efforts to suppress alternative hypotheses?
To be sure, Joseph McCarthy was right about communism even though the ways he combated it were wrong and counterproductive. But that's all the more reason that honest scientists who view global warmism as credible--if such creatures exist--should rise up against these McCarthyite tactics.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Remember, if your science is paid for by a greedy capitalist, it’s not valid science.
But....if your science is paid for by the government - and the government is virtually your ONLY paycheck - heck, you can still do valid science.
Not.
After the pledge they get their Al Gore autographed knee pads.
I thought the left was against purity tests?
Tells you all you need to know about so-called "science" today.
If "scientists" in other areas aren't speaking out I say trash (or even better, hang) the lot and let the new Dark Ages begin. They'll be brighter than the tail end of this so-called "Age of Enlightenment" that ultimately bows to political whims.
Burn LBL now.
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In the 1890’s the Indiana legislature tried to enact a law rounding “pi” off to exactly 3.14. It didn’t work. That is the same sort of thing we have here; you can pass a law by a majority vote, but you can’t thus actually change nature, you can only embarrass yourself.
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Excellent joke.
One of the benefits of this situation is that it is helping to dethrone “scientists” from “nature’s nobility, Above it All” to “ordinary money-grubbing putzes that’ll say anything for a paycheck.”
I think this is a positive development.
One scam; incomprehensible, with tyranny and poverty for all.
Hey, it sounds like the pro-Polanski crowd. All the signers who approved of Polanski raping a 12-year-old girl. We’ve got the same type of people here.
uh huh...taking names and ready to spring into action against anyone that doesn’t agree to the Religion of GW/CC Fascism.
I mean come on guys, these thugs are out in the open now.
I like it. I like it A LOT :)
These cretins and fools aren’t scientists...they are LACKEYS. Does someone have their e-mails??? I’d love to spend some time giving them the “what for”.
The state of "science" in the 21st century.
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