This study was not science. It might look superficially like a scientific study, but without proper methodology and without the input of actual scientists (sociologists are NOT scientists), it is meaningless.
True scientists try to suppress their own opinions as much as they humanly can. In real scientific studies, the study is designed in such a way as to eliminate any residual bias.
Global Warming isn’t science either, but those that “believe” in this trash sure think it is. So “believed” is this that it has become inculcated in the laws.
Was Silent Spring based on science? This book led to the ban of DDT and it’s BS lives on to this day as a “matter of fact” in the public’s consciousness. This ban caused the death of tens of thousands of humans!
Science becomes a tool with which ideas that society “believes in” are affirmed. Look at the effort put into trying to normalize homosexuality, trying to prove a genetic link (20 years and a genome project and we still don’t have anything, but it’s still written about a if it’s a matter of fact), or trying to show that it’s natural, or even suppressing any derogatory information. While the Nazi’s wrote their racial pseudo science which we today mock and laugh at, even describe as unethical, we have our own version of the same thing! We write long articles on “Does Race Exist” in Scientific American, and of course with some Photoshopping and rhetoric come to our conclusions: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1023558/posts
Why do you think they stopped doing mass IQ tests years ago to children at early ages? What do you think these tests were showing? Why do you think the government stopped collecting any metrics that show a linkage between homosexuality and pedophilia?
Science feeds the ignorant masses affirmation for their behaviors and ideas. At it’s most basic level, science explains the world around us and our culture ultimately defines how we interpret the data, and what we study or suppress. Science only pretends to be objective, but it’s actually highly subjective, and always has been.
There is real science, just like their is a real truth. But that accounts for about 10% of what we call science. The rest is no more than a sales pitch for a product, person, or idea. The so called social/psychological and environmental sciences are the worst!
PS- Now that NASA gets a “budget” to study Global Warming, what do you think they will find?
Ultimately, in a secular society, we bump God from the pedestal and put man on it. Science is the argument we will use to do this with.