This came to mind after reading the National Review article:
A Sudanese court gave a 27-year-old woman who is eight-months pregnant with her second child, until Thursday to abandon her newly adopted Christian faith and return to Islam or face a death sentence.
The AGW priests are truly desperate. The world is giving every indication of ignoring them. Desperate fanatics do desperate things.
Science unfortunately has always been adversely influenced by people with a political agenda. Soviet natural sciences never recovered from Stalin’s fascination and support of Lysenko. Lysenko had the politically correct opinion that learned traits could be inherited. Nice for communist theory but utter quackery. Opposing views and scientists were quashed.
FTA: “The assumption that the vast majority in a scientific field is engaged in fraud or corruption is frankly conspiratorial,”
Hey, Mikey! You might want to take a look at the emails and source code (oops, the latter is WAYyyyy over your head) released by the Univ. of East Anglia whistle-blower.
It *is* “conspiratorial” loser.
*spit*
too bad this NR columnist, Rupert Darwall, had to denigrate Tail Gunner Joe to make his point.
I only wish we had more Senators like Joe McCarthy today.
Forced consensus is anti science. If your model doesn’t work, you go back and look at your basic assumptions. You don’t threaten critics that point out flaws in your model. In short, you’ve missed something that is your responsibility not the critic’s.
Some climate scientists are so concerned by their predictions that they are demanding immediate action. Others are cynically using problematic models for political, economic and cultural advantage.
Reminded of McCarthyism? So the global warming climate change climate disruption "pure of heart" are admitting that they are wrong and "McCarthy" is right -- again?
MCCARTHYISM, RED SCARE, AND DOMESTIC SUBVERSION
"“McCarthyism” has morphed from a term that once described a specific pathology, into a verbal club that is used to invoke cloture on politically correct subjects. "
"Although newly released archival materials such as the Venona intercepts show the extent of Communist subversion in pre- and post-war America, contemporary leftwing historians like Ellen Schrecker . . . continue to use critiques of McCarthyism as a way of exonerating American communists . . . Writers like Nicholas von Hoffman have recently challenged the prevailing orthodoxy in provocative articles with titles such as “McCarthy was Right.” But the left will not relinquish the notion of an American Dark Age when communists were innocent victims. This is part of its foundation myth and it is spread not only in the university, but by Hollywood as well, where films about the malicious excesses of anti-Communism have become a familiar sub-genre."
BTTT!