A Danish Galileo

The American Prowler ^ | Friday, January 17, 2003 | By Steven Martinovich

[JohnHuang2]

Friday, January 17, 2003

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[Nitro]

Is there anyway you could mask the imploration from the people that have already given???

I was a COBOL mainframe guy and given enough time I could do anything...

can you???

P.S. I did give over the line!!

[DoughtyOne]

Nice article. I shoudl read the book.

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[Molly Pitcher]

Good to see this man's work & position getting more and more notice.

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[aruanan]

environmentalism is a political ideology based on science

More accurately, "Environmentalism is a political ideology that inaccurately claims legitimacy by appealing to science."

[bert]

Thanks fdor this article. I sent it to the editor of my local paper who regularly trashes the enviro drivel. I hope it will be grist for his mill.

[Wonder Warthog]

"As Ronald Bailey pointed out in 2002's Global Warming and other Eco-Myths, environmentalism is a political ideology based on science -- the accepted way we judge what is the objective truth."

Bailey is wrong here. "Environmentalism" is a political ideology MASQUERADING as science. It uses "scientific-sounding language" not based in real facts to mislead the non-scientific public.

[Nitro]

Here is a bad joke...

kiss my access, I paid!!

Bad joke over, but really I did kick in and I only make a deal because I may miss rent next month, to fund FR!!

[Constantine XIII]

They are absolutely right about "scifi" american. What was once a great science magazine was transformed over the course of a few months into a pile of drivel focused on promoting environmentalism, bashing conservatives, and denigrating religion.

These folks seem to be purposefully infiltrating science publications. I noticed that Astronomy just hired THREE english majors onto the staff, one to be editor-in-chief! Seems awfully dubious to me, considering the abysmal level of mathematical and scientific curiosity most, though not all, english majors display.

[bobg]

As a former liberal environmentalist until getting involved in asbestos abatement, I read Lomborg's book from cover to cover. I had also read Julian Simon's book which inspired Lomborg. All this publicity will only cause more people to read Skeptical Environmentalist.
Bjorn, if you see this...keep up the good work...

At a professional course for asbestos abatement, a comment by one of the instructors at coffee break started me to search for other "junkscience". He said that we were spending billions to protect smokers from asbestos, arguing that the cilia in broncial tubes kept out most fibers, while a cigarette stopped the cilia protective particle expelling movements for hours.

The same thing happened with radon... Most data was based on uranium miners most of whom smoked... Dr. Bernard Cohen of Univ of Pittsburgh did a large study that found that the counties in U.S. with highest radon levels had the lowest lung canger rate. But as an architect I still have to have radon tests for new federal work.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[Tailgunner Joe]

bump

[Fiddlstix]

Thanks for the Ping

[Phil V.]

bump

(see www.lomborg.com)

[Brian Allen]

<< environmentalism is a political ideology based on science >>

Wrong.

"Environmentalism" is Pantheism posing as "science."

And posing as whatever else those who lust after power and are willing to go to any length to achieve it are able to disguise it as. And as whatever the various other opportunists, fellow-travellers and useful idiots who trail in the power-lusters' slime will, if it will advance their own agendas, disguise it as.

Worse:- Pantheism/"environmentalism" is being promulgated and promoted by the useful idiots who comprise the feral state -- and has been insidiously adapted as and is as-insidiously promoted as the official religion of every once-Civilized western state.

Including our own.

Too bad, given that 'the power lust is a noxious weed that flourishes in the vacant lots of empty minds,' that environmentalism didn't spray its own vacant lotts!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[blackie]

Abolish tree huggin' root suckers, abolish the UN, abolish the ESA, log timber, hatch fish, mine for minerals, graze livestock, ride internal combustion engined vehicles any where, drill for oil in ANWR!

Be Well - Be Armed - Be Safe - Molon Labe!