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.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“Although it might seem a bit ludicrous today, for thousands of years it was believed that life regularly arose from the elements without first being formed through a seed, egg, or other traditional means of reproduction.”
Uh, this one is still going strong today, only now it’s called the THEORY of Darwinian Evolution, and “mud-puddle” has been changed to “seawater puddle bombarded by cosmic rays” and the time frame for “spontaneity” has been extended a bit.
Oh, and it’s still just as ludicrous.
I encourage you to do further research in this area. Many experiments, worldwide, have confirmed some form of “cold fusion,” now known as LENR (for low-energy nuclear reactions).
Cold fusion was not a hoax, just tricky to replicate. Although there still exists no comprehensive theory for LENR, it works regardless, just as fire did before chemistry explained it.
The Earth is flat. Every scientist knows this.
The “tricky to duplicate” is the part that has my BS meter at the needle against the peg on the right side.
Low Energy Nuclear Reaction is kind of an oxymoron. It may exist, but it is of such a minute factor as to be easily dismissed.
Without some kind of encompassing working hypothesis, this is like a kid playing with an A.C. Gilbert home chemistry set.
“Neolithic hunter/gatherers probably got a large percent of their calories from animal fat. While game usually has less fat than domestic animals...”
Wild animals tend to be VERY lean. What fat deposits there are make up only a small percentage of the overall animal. At least, that has been what I’ve seen - unless they are getting extra calories from a farm field.
Arteriosclerosis can be caused by a deficiency in Vitamin C, and has also been linked with damage caused by several bacterial/viral infections.
Back to the DARK AGES everyone talks about, eh? Good idea for an article though.
That constraint was placed in Genesis 6:3. I wonder what will happen when the curse placed after the flood is lifted. Will people again live to 500? And if so, will God help us not LOOK like we are 500? :)
science/man is now his god.
As Rush Limbaugh has said on a number of occasions, scientific fact is not something that is subject to a vote. There once was a time when the majority of the scientific community believed that the sun revolved around the Earth. Just because that was the consensus at the time, it didn’t make it a scientific fact.
The Earth is flat. It’s scientific consensus.
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.
Actually, you can trace the beginning much further than that. It isn’t really a formal methodology as it is a body of work built over many years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
Well, according to wiki perhaps, but that isn’t very reliable, and science as we know it and from history did not start any earlier as everything before the Enlightenment was based on long disproven practices and theories pulled out of someone’s hat (humors, the ether, etc). There was no body of knowledge worthy of the name before then. What had been accumulated over millennia, and remained until recent times, was destroyed by the Arab Invasion beginning in 628 AD.
This had been preceded by Girolamo Savonarola, 1452-1498 who burnt as many books as he could lay his mitts on.
The Enlightenment was a virtual reboot of knowledge and the start of the scientific method - regardless of wiki-thought.
Whaaaaaat....?
It is "Pseudo-Scientific Tyranny".
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Fixed it...
Industrial Heat LLC has put over $10M into Andrea Rossi’s version of LENR. They claim to have a 1 megawatt LENR heater nearing the completion of a one-year test at a major industrial customer and $3B in pre-orders. They have been issued at least one patent and have 64 patent applications in process.
Could be a major hoax, or it could be the energy equivalent of the personal computer, starting a comparable revolution. The simplest explanation is that it actually works. Rossi claims he can install LENR energy sources for 5 cents/watt compared to $3-$5/watt for current solar installations.
If Rossi’s company doesn’t make it, there are at least two major competitors right behind him.
The 97% were not all directly polled; most of the positions on global warming were derived from the individuals’ published writings.
If you ever manage to have that discussion- you will probably faint dead away from shock :)
That's because they have substituted seeking evidence which proves their theory rather than let the evidence write the theory for them. Instead of getting all the evidence, and accounting for it in their theory, they ignore, discard, or alter that which does not fit their presumptions.
Add in profit motives, and the problem becomes not a simple matter of ego, but further clouded by a buck to be made.
Good science requires good data, and that requires fundamental honesty.
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