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To: dr_lew

Bear in mind how it was used by Lysenko and Stalin - you don’t see the similarities with “settled science” and “deniers must be silenced?”


9 posted on 03/17/2015 1:29:15 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

In that regard, Lysenkoism was much more limited. I believe Stalin endorsed some kind of “winter wheat” program on that basis, which of course didn’t work. This had disasterous consequences, but still it did not have the scope “Climate Change” policy.

Certainly I do have many misgivings about the “Climate Change” agenda. Obviously this is nothing like a scientific question as it has been understood in the past, and it is analogous to Lysenkoism in that it affects broad social policy. It’s different in that it isn’t based on a single idiosyncratic view, but a whole community of professional scientists. Of course it’s obvious how dissenters and skeptics are squeezed out, but what if they’re right?

The latest that I see is that the deterioration of the West Antarctic ice sheet is accelerating, and has passed a tipping point, so we’ll see.


12 posted on 03/17/2015 2:23:37 AM PDT by dr_lew
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