Why is man-made global warming real? Because modern science tells us so! Modern science is always right isn’t it? When the first railroads were built before the Civil War, the modern science of the day warned of the dangers of rail travel, saying the human body cannot withstand sustained speeds over 30MPH. I’m sure Jeff Gordon and Chuck Yeager, not to mention anyone who travels by plane would have a good laugh over that one. We were at the Baseball Hall of Fame. They have an excellent exhibit in the history of the Negro Leagues. One artifact I remember was an excerpt from a medical journal published at the end of WWII that argued agianst integrating the major leagues on the grounds that Blacks were inferior to Whites. Nevermind that Jesse Owens, Joe Louis and others already blew that assertion to smithereens. This is what “modern settled science” told us a relatively short 70 yrs ago. Obviously Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Roy Campenella, Ernie Banks, Willie McCovey, Lou Brock, Reggie Jackson, etc never received that memo. Which leads to another problem with “modern settled science” how factors unrelated to the subject matter at hand unduly influences the findings. Whether it was the ugly spectacle of racism, or a need to advance an agenda by any means necessary for political and/or financial gain. So when scientists, who derive a significant portion of their livelihood from “government, with grants and contracts being distributed on the basis of peer review” vehemently assert that global “warming”/”cooling”/”hey, we really don’t know WTF is going on, let’s call it man-made climate change and cover our butts” is occuring, it’s as meaningful as Warren Buffet issuing a strong buy recommendation on Berkshire Hathaway.
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"On August 7, 1948, the V.I. Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences announced that from that point on Lysenkoism would be taught as "the only correct theory". Soviet scientists were forced to denounce any work that contradicted Lysenko's research. Criticism of Lysenko was denounced as "bourgeois" or "fascist", and analogous "non-bourgeois" theories also flourished in other fields in the Soviet academy at this time..."
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....Over 3,000 [scientists] were imprisoned, fired, or executed for attempting to oppose Lysenkoism at one time and overall, scientific research in genetics was effectively destroyed until the death of Stalin in 1953. Due to Lysenkoism, crop yields in the USSR actually declined as well.
Nikita Khrushchev, who claimed to be an expert in agricultural science[citation needed], also valued Lysenko as a great scientist, and the taboo on genetics continued (but all geneticists were released or rehabilitated posthumously). The ban was only waived in the mid-1960s.
Almost alone among Western scientists, John Desmond Bernal, Professor of Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, made an aggressive public defense of Lysenko and some years later gave an obituary of 'Stalin as a Scientist.' However, despite Bernal's endorsement, other members of Britain's scientific community retreated from open support of the Soviet Union, and may have been one of the chief reasons for a retreat from Marxism in that country.".......