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To: drbuzzard
It's all about the grants, and it's nothing new. Decades ago when I was assisting research back in college, the professors knew that their research was mostly dreck. It just needed to sound plausibly good to the grant issuers.

Another dynamic item that the models don't seem to take into account are hurricanes. As oceans get warmer, they are more able to sustain hurricanes, which are efficient mechanisms for transporting HUGE amounts of heat energy from the ocean surface to the upper atmosphere.

63 posted on 06/01/2012 6:10:46 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: PapaBear3625

I’ve had a thought recently about the ancient Greeks. You’re probably wondering why this isn’t a digression. Bear with me.

OK, in many ways they invented much of modern medicine and gave us the Hippocratic oath. “First do no harm.”

Around the same time they introduced the scientific method. This is one of the greatest cornerstones of Western Civilization. It’s why the western nations “won” (at least until the progressives, and other leftist strains sapped the will to live and succeed of the West and they started to eat out their own innards).

What they did lack was an equivalent to the Hippocratic oath. Thus we get scientists willing to lie and falsify data to suit outside agendas. On top of this the scientific community will not even uniformly condemn this.

We need an Aristotlean oath. “First I will not lie.” The world of science would be a lot better off for the existence of such a thing. This is not to say scientists could not speculate, but they damned well should be clear about what they actually know and don’t know. That boundary should be explicit and they should be not causing hysteria based on half baked theories unsupported by facts.


64 posted on 06/01/2012 6:40:31 AM PDT by drbuzzard (All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.)
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