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Proposed Legislation Is Mooninite Fallout
theantipop writes "Ars Technica has a story about the Terrorist Hoax Improvements Act, a bill introduced recently by the Senate. The bill aims to 'amend the federal criminal code to include a number of new clauses meant to up the ante on wasting government resources. The amendments include extensions to the prohibitions on the spread of false information and mailing threats, increases to maximum prison terms, and allowances for civil suits so that local and federal governments can attempt to recoup expenses related to an incident.' This is undoubtedly a reaction to the Great Mooninite Scare of 2007."
Because the skeptics have to prove an arguement, rather than the "Scientists" have to prove their findings beyond doubt. Oh what a wonderful world that would be, we could claim that the sky was brown and no one could prove us wrong so it'd be right, and the sun would just be an orange.
Sorry, buddy, I live in reality, where scientific claims have to be backed up with proof instead of mass acceptance. Too bad so many people are willing to accept a convincing sounding claim rather than actually look at the flawed evidence they've already tried to hand us. My statement is hardly as vague as some of their finger pointing evidence towards weather patterns and fictional BS. 50 years ago we were talking about global cooling. Now we have global warming... oh but they are right now.
Why is it that even the most outlandish predictions talk about a change of 5 degrees? And yet no one mentions that this will happen over 100 years, but we have to act TODAY because we can't study it? Why is that? Why is it that anyone who discounts the idea of global warming is mocked ridiculed and hounded until they are discredited or they give up? Why is any proof refuting global warming shoved to one side, and the space afforded them shrunk until it's not worth it. Yet a spread on global warming evidence/politics can take up 4 pages itself detailing the fight, but not the science of it.
The simple question that anyone should be able to answer is shouldn't the evidence be enough to stand by itself so that anyone studying it should be able to find the same correlation with out someone hounding them or hand holding until they find the "right answer".
Nah You know what... I'm sure global warming is real, because those are the tactics of scientists who have absolute proof and are assured that anyone can reproduce their answers. I'm going to start accepting it because what else could this tactics be?