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To: butterdezillion

There is so much wrong in your post that I’m not going to comment on it all, other than to say I’m sad that such ignorance runs rampant on FR these days.

The one thing I will comment on is that the junk science of global warming has literally nothing to do with medical trials of FDA-approved medicines and vaccines.


81 posted on 09/22/2011 12:40:24 PM PDT by Carling (As of 9/12/11, FreeRepublic Is Now an Anti-Vaccine Community.)
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To: Carling

Politicized “science”. That’s what I’m talking about.

It’s how the medical community still claims that there is no abortion-breast cancer link. I think Australia finally adopted requirements that medical personnel advise about the ABC link after it was found that a large study regarding breast cancer had failed to report that the greatest correlation was found between first-trimester abortions and breast cancer - surpassing the significance of even family history of breast cancer. That result was suppressed because it was not politically correct. It’s been a long time since I examined that issue so I’m not up on all the details but I remember there was one pro-choice scientist whose sister had breast cancer so she was very interested in being honest about the science. Her studies consistently found that there is a link between abortion and breast cancer. She found out that her “friends” refused to listen to the science because it was not politically correct. She was pretty disgusted at the politification within the scientific community.

And that’s what I’m talking about. Are you denying that this stuff is real? I’m not a scientist and I would be happy to let the scientists come up with the best theories and models. But if they are going to be scam artists - in biological science as well as in climate science - and if the system of accountability has failed, then I’m not necessarily going to believe everything they tell me. My epistemology doesn’t allow me to, because I basically have an evidence-based epistemology, which is supposed to be what the scientific community also has.

The scientific community can poo-pooh my concerns and claim that the system is perfectly fine, but as long as the scientific community refuses to deal with the blatant failures within the system of accountability, color me skeptical.

The same issue holds true with law enforcement, which is the main issue I’ve concerned myself with recently. As long as the total failures in the system of accountability are poo-poohed and those of us who are concerned are totally blown off, they should not expect me to trust them.


84 posted on 09/22/2011 12:54:28 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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