[liberallarry]

I’m old enough to remember the “Global cooling” and “Population Explosion” which the scientist where so sure would end the world before the year 2000.

Me too.

I even questioned Erlich about his loss to Simon and his disagreement with his collegue Thomas Sowell. His response was that only his timing was wrong. An unpleasant character that Erlich...but I think he was correct.

As for global cooling and other scientific hypothesis which have been shown to be wrong...so what? If you're trying to say that all human knowledge is conditional and limited, you're right. If you're trying to say that science is always wrong, you're dead wrong.

[drlevy88]

Well, it does look rather ridiculous for these slyentists to peer at this forest through a mere 25 year wide drinking straw.

[agere_contra]

If you're trying to say that science is always wrong, you're dead wrong.

Something we can all agree on. It's the poisoning of science with vast injections of government money that seems to be the problem.