"..Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible... How will we manage to get environmentalism out of the clutches of religion, and back to a scientific discipline? There's a simple answer: we must institute far more stringent requirements for what constitutes knowledge in the environmental realm. I am thoroughly sick of politicized so-called facts that simply aren't true. It isn't that these "facts" are exaggerations of an underlying truth. Nor is it that certain organizations are spinning their case to present it in the strongest way. Not at all---what more and more groups are doing is putting out is lies, pure and simple. Falsehoods that they know to be false...At this moment, the EPA is hopelessly politicized. In the wake of Carol Browner, it is probably better to shut it down and start over. ...We need an organization that will be ruthless about acquiring verifiable results, that will fund identical research projects to more than one group, and that will make everybody in this field get honest fast." ~ Michael Crichton, September 15, 2003 Environmentalism as Religion
Good post and thanks for the link.
Crichton is dead on the money about Browner and the EPA. They play to the emotions of the uninformed just as most every environmental and animal rights group does. They cherry pick a seed of truth on an issue and proceed to broaden it by supporting it with lies.