Posted on 05/20/2009 3:52:48 AM PDT by decimon
Because they are agenda driven a-holes, employed by pressure groups, using their conjectures as a scare tactic that has nothing to do with actual science or use of the scientific method, with the sole purpose to influence public opinion via the press?
Did you bother to read the "*" note at the bottom?
Does the meaning (words DO have meaning) of the actual statement go over your head?
Conjecture, speculation, and debate are great; however, a hypothesis has to be testable, or is is just conjecture, and should not be presented as anything else...and in such a case any educated guess is as good as any other, so should not, in the press, be presented as 'authoritative'.
Also, it was a comment upon comments, not necessarily the presentation in the article that elicited the comments.
6,000 pounds of Detroit steel. Once a month I scrapped the Pintos and Toyotas out of the wheel wells. I had to look through the steering wheel to see forward. 472 Cubic inch V-8. 9 mpg city, 11 highway. 40 gallon fuel tank. THAT was a car!
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