To: SmartInsight
"This group feels strongly that science and politics can't be divorced and that we need to take bold measures to not only communicate science but also to aggressively engage the denialists and politicians who attack climate science and its scientists,"If science and politics can't be divorced, then it really isn't about the science, it's really about what you can force other people to do at government gunpoint.
18 posted on
11/07/2010 2:22:57 PM PST by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: coloradan
"This group feels strongly that science and politics can't be divorced and that we need to take bold measures to not only communicate science but also to aggressively engage the denialists and politicians who attack climate science and its scientists,"Science can never be prescriptive. All it can do is raise issues for the world's attention. It is politics and economics that then decide what to do about them. People who argue that the science says we must do something are being disingenuous about their true motives. If those people are also scientists, then they are abusing science. This is a tremendously important point. --- Iain Murray, National Review, December 21, 2004
64 posted on
11/07/2010 5:35:19 PM PST by
Publius6961
("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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