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I was thinking that it was the new inquisition!

IT IS! IT IS!

"THE ENVIROMENTALIST INQUISTION"

THAT IS GREAT - did you come up with that yourself?

[e_castillo]

"did you come up with that yourself?"

Yes I did... I think... You know how that goes. I may have heard it somewhere but the feeling I have is that any Scientist that dares to question the latest fad is called a heretic.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"Environmental Inquisition" --- I see what you mean, and it's a good phrase--

My only regret is that it's kind of an insult to the real Inquisition, which Baylor University sociologist Rodney Stark and St. Louis Unversity historian Thomas Madden say had higher standards of procedural due process, more protection for the accused, higher rates of acquittal, and more lenient sentencing than any of the courts of Europe at that time.

That second link, especially, is worth a look.

It comes as a surprise to many, but the Inquisition was (from a historical point of view) a progressive force for rationality and justice in law: compared, as I say, to monarchial and feudal courts.