The Global Warming movement has no use for the scientific method - especially the part when it pertains to a hypothesis being false.
Posted on 08/19/2008 9:03:54 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
In an email exchange with the editors of On Line Opinion, I have explained why I will not be contributing any further pieces to the site because it has been “captured” by climate change denialists. At the request of Graham Young I am putting my arguments into this last piece for On Line Opinion. At least, it will be my last unless and until the journal returns to the objectives it was set up to pursue.
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There I also explain why I do not presume to engage in arguments about climate science because I do not have the expertise to do so without making a fool of myself. Denialists without any scientific qualifications, or irrelevant ones, show no such humility.
According to the line of argument about balance, it would be perfectly acceptable for On Line Opinion to carry a series of articles repudiating the link between AIDS and the HIV virus. (Try googling AIDS denialism.)
The AIDS denialists have to account for the fact that the overwhelming weight of medical and epidemiological evidence is against them, so they must invent fanciful theories about colonialist plots and gay capture of science to compensate for the lack of hard evidence to support their beliefs.
This is exactly what the climate change denialists do, and each time On Line Opinion runs one of their pieces it is, inter alia, endorsing their view that Australia's most eminent climate scientists are frauds and liars.
(Excerpt) Read more at onlineopinion.com.au ...
If what follows demonstrates anything, it demonstrates our opponents ARE NOT INTERESTED IN SCIENCE:p>
"Denialism is a relatively new term used to describe the position of governments, business groups, interest groups, or individuals who reject propositions on which a scientific or scholarly consensus exists. Such groups and individuals are said to be engaging in denialism when they seek to influence policy processes and outcomes by using rhetorical tactics to give the appearance of argument or legitimate debate, when in actuality there is none.[1][2] The term was first used in the sense of 'holocaust denialism', but the usage has broadened to include 'AIDS denialism',[3][4][5][6][7], 'climate change denialism'[8][9][10], and 'evolution denialism'.[11]"
Wow - maybe this guy now knows how I (as a denier) feel on just about every other board that has embraced GW theories...
Excellent quote from Harper’s article re: HIV/AIDS skeptics (applies every bit as much to human-caused global warming skeptics):
“Those who wish to engage the AIDS research establishment in the sort of causality debate that is carried on in most other branches of scientific endeavor are tarred as AIDS ‘denialists,’ as if skepticism about the pathogenicity of a retrovirus were the moral equivalent of denying that the Nazis slaughtered 6 million Jews. Moral zeal rather than scientific skepticism defines the field. It has been decided in advance that HIV causes AIDS; consequently all research and all funding must proceed from that assumption.”
I strongly encourage FReepers to read the entire article:
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/03/0080961
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No, he doesn’t know. Because when confronted with conflicting information, he put his tail between his legs and ran.
Then what is the word that describes those who give the appearance of a scientific or scholarly consensus when in actuality there is none?
Clive Hamilton: In an email exchange with the editors of On Line Opinion, I have explained why I will not be contributing any further pieces to the site because it has been "captured" by climate change denialists. At the request of Graham Young I am putting my arguments into this last piece for On Line Opinion. At least, it will be my last unless and until the journal returns to the objectives it was set up to pursue.IOW, until it returns to purging the site of any views other than his own.
see the quote and link here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2064316/posts?page=3#3
Apparently, the same thing happened to Arthur Ashe. For many, the prospect of standing up to their doctor can be a very intimidating prospect:
“Arthur Ashe also took AZT. After his death, New York Daily News columnist Earl Caldwell reported that Ashe had ‘wanted to’ break away from his treatment, but was worried about giving offense. ‘What will I tell my doctors?’ he said to a friend.”
http://www.duesberg.com/media/tbcure-2.html
==IOW, until it returns to purging the site of any views other than his own.
It would appear, we are up against a movement that goes far beyond global warming, AIDS, etc. This movement is but a tentacle of the political “LEFT.” And as part of its creeping revolution, it intends to transform science into a political tool designed to further their desire for social control/tyranny.
Liar.
Well done, FRiend.
LOL Yep they do not like when someone confronts them with facts. Fact is that the temperture has been dropping each year after 1998. Many areas like here are barely reaching 80ºf and it should be the dog days of Auguest.
Well, at least he did not flunk Divinity like his cult leader. While Mathematics has been labelled "The Queen of the Sciences", I see no Climatology nor Meterology there. Perfect Mathematics fed incorrect or fabricated data can only yield incorrect results.
Copernicus was a denialist who asserted the heliocentric solar system as opposed to the "consensus science" that held the Earth as center of the universe.
PS Here’s a link to a video exposing the junk science behind AIDS, put out in the 1990s by the same people who produced the “THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE” Excellent.
http://immunity.org.uk/media/The_AIDS_Catch_Web.wmv
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