Posted on 01/03/2016 11:02:46 AM PST by Kaslin
The favorite cudgel of leftist climate change fear mongers is the appeal to authority, as in that there is "a scientific consensus" that the earth is warming and that changes over the last century are due to human activity. The problem with appeals to authority on extremely broad scientific topics is that they are not subject to easy proof by experimentation, and are quite often wrong. Here's a list of ten popular theories ultimately proven false, and it omits some major howlers, like therapeutically bleeding people or the geocentric theory of the solar system. Now we can add to that list the "scientific consensus" that diets rich in processed foods and fats lead to heart disease. This idea, which has dominated medical thinking for at least the last half-century, and led to all manner of government policy making, regulation and just plain tsuris over finishing the brisket, is now in doubt.
New studies of pre-modern humans, dating back many millennia, demonstrate that arteriosclerosis (the hardening of the arterial blood vessels that causes blockages and heart attacks) afflicted people who (by necessity and not choice) followed that most rigid of diet and exercise regimens -- hunting and gathering. The mummified remains of Neolithic era humans from around the globe demonstrate that arterial disease was about as commonplace in those ancient populations as it is today. Despite the fact that these people had diets low on saturated fats, high in proteins, vegetables and fruits, and engaged in regular and strenuous exercise, they still suffered from heart disease as they aged at about the same rates as modern humans.
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“There is a consensus among we scientists, and those who don’t consent will have all funding cut off, fired from your positions, and personally destroyed.” -Science 2016
It’s amazing that ever since the Scientific Method was developed (maybe 2500 to 3500 years ago), scientists keep making the same mistake over and over...that is, ignoring the effect of their own collective fallibility.
Also on point:
““Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.†-Nicolaus Copernicus”
Also: When it comes to our everyday lives, “consensus†is a loaded word, perhaps even one of the most dangerous ones out there. To an individual with a working mind, the fact that most people — even if it’s the overwhelming majority of intelligent, informed people — believe in something shouldn’t shape your opinion at all.
Because part of having a working mind means having the confidence to gather, synthesize and draw conclusions from the information you can access yourself. It’s one of the most valuable things we can do as human beings.
All must genuflect and say three Hail Obamas to Saints Lysenko, Hubbard and Barnum.
I can remember about 40 yrs. ago or less, we were HEADED
FOR AN ICE AGE before long! It was in the magazines; so it
had to be true! - I think Gore tapped into that one; but I’m
not sure he did, so don’t quote me!
The universal “scientific consensus” is this: only through continued funding will the world be made a better place.
If I could ever heave a discussion with a so-called environmentalist with him having a melt down and resorting to personal attacks and name calling, I’d like to ask-
1. Why does only capitalist coal and only capitalist internal combustion engines cause green house emissions?
2. Why must the data be rigged if it’s so universally conclusive?
3. Why is natural climate change,such as that which brought numerous ice ages, now nonexistent? Or, how does science distinguish the natural from the man caused?
4. Why must those who don’t accept the doctrine of man caused climate change be threatened, denigrated and intimidated?
The consensus among my ancestors (all of them) is that before the age of 120, nearly everyone is dead. None of then made is anywhere near that.
Conclusion: oat bran, fish oil, vegan or whatever diet, I will be, too.
Be prepared!
Apply inductive logic to these (and many, other) observations of the eventual failure of “successful” scientific theories; and you are left with the “Pessimistic Meta-induction” which states: Since all previous scientific theories have eventually been proven false; therefore, all existing and future scientific theories will also eventually be proven false.
” Despite the fact that these people had diets low on saturated fats...”
Not exactly true. Neolithic hunter/gatherers probably got a large percent of their calories from animal fat. While game usually has less fat than domestic animals, Neolithic peoples ate everything, especially the high fat organs such as brain, liver, marrow and kidneys.
I looked up the “cold fusion” hypothesis, and much to my surprise, it was found to be - a complete hoax.
The supposed “fusion” that was claimed to occur at room temperature turned out to be some contaminants that got into the solution, and the published results could not be replicated elsewhere.
Dr. B. Stanley Pons, professor of chemistry at the University of Utah, and his colleague, Dr. Martin Fleischmann of the University of Southampton in England, claimed to have detected cold fusion in an experiment reported upon in March of 1989. This finding was quickly disproved, as reported by the NYT in May 1989, because nobody else could come up with even remotely the same or similar conclusions.
The discrediting of this notion did little for the careers of either Dr. Pons or Dr. Fleischmann. Considering their fate, is it any surprise that the coterie of “climate scientists” would not want any outsiders questioning their conclusions.
Religion is a hard thing to give up.
Science certainly has it’s place, but it’s got limitations as well. Science seems to have a hard time determining what foods are good for us, and these are things they can hold in their hands and study a gazillion ways from Sunday.
They seem to go back and forth on eggs every three years or so, and don’t forget that tropical oils were the devil until fairly recently. You would be better off consuming pure arsenc rather than coconut oil. Now the stuff is sold as some sort of miracle food.
It is not “Scientific Consensus”.
It is “Scientific Tyranny”.
I call them the Four Fallacies of Climate Change:
1) Its existence
2) Its scope
3) Its cause
4) Its solution.
And the dinosaur diet, rich in cavemen.
Basically you are dying from the time you are born, especially if you are a liberal.
“... ever since the Scientific Method was developed (maybe 2500 to 3500 years ago), scientists ...”
The Scientific Method is a product of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century, and it wasn’t until Pasture in the 19th Century that Philosophers began to change into scientists.
We are in the 21st Century that makes it some 300 years not thousands!!
Someday, years from now, all this ‘climate change’ crap will be merely the subject of ridicule and the next generation of late night monologues.
For now, it’s really just pathetic.
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