[Moltke]

What is a scientist anyways? An economist who flunked?

A scientist is someone who made it possible for you to have a personal computer to post a message on the internet, someone who made it possible for you to heat your home in the winter and cool it in the summer, and someone who made it possible for you to drive a car to the nearest fast food outlet when you're hungry, moron.

[Texas Eagle]

Wow. That's a pretty impressive list.

So, tell me, if they can do all that, how come they can't decide whether or not Pluto is a planet?

And then tell me how it is they can blame man for Global Warming when man was hardly around at the time glaciers formed Lake Tahoe, The Great Lakes, Yosemite National Park, Glacier National Park, etc.?

[IncPen]

A scientist is someone who made it possible for you to have a personal computer to post a message on the internet, someone who made it possible for you to heat your home in the winter and cool it in the summer, and someone who made it possible for you to drive a car to the nearest fast food outlet when you're hungry, moron.

You need to understand that 'Global Warming' is about a lot of things (politics, control, rationing) but it sure as hell has nothing to do with science.

[Still Thinking]

A scientist is someone who made it possible for you to have a personal computer to post a message on the internet, someone who made it possible for you to heat your home in the winter and cool it in the summer, and someone who made it possible for you to drive a car to the nearest fast food outlet when you're hungry, moron.

That all sounds like stuff engineers have done. A scientiest, OTOH, would discover the basic principle behind one of those advances, scribble it on a Post-it note, and it would end up in the trash, leaving it to the cleaning crew to take it to an engineer! ;-)