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To: SampleMan
This is why I don't hand over my life to the limits of scientific knowledge being passed off as irrefutable.

Scientific theories are always refutable---with better science. That element of self-correction is both the nature and the strength of the scientific method.

23 posted on 11/16/2006 9:30:51 AM PST by Wormwood (We broke it. We bought it.)
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To: Wormwood
Scientific theories are always refutable---with better science. That element of self-correction is both the nature and the strength of the scientific method.

I quite frequently see scientists directly quoted in news reports as saying that man-made global warming is "established scientific fact". Very rarely do they ever strike me as being interested in debating the issue and very rarely do I ever hear them say things such as "I believe it's a fact, but it's possible that I'm wrong."

There are skeptics on the subject to be sure, but you have to admit that they usually tend to be ridiculed.

63 posted on 11/17/2006 1:36:59 PM PST by jpl (Victorious warriors win first, then go to war; defeated warriors go to war first, then seek to win.)
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