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Is Scientific Consensus a Threat to Democracy?
chance_encounter writes "President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus has published an article in the Financial Times in which he seems to equate the current global warming debate with totalitarian thought control: 'The dictates of political correctness are strict and only one permitted truth, not for the first time in human history, is imposed on us. Everything else is denounced ... The scientists should help us and take into consideration the political effects of their scientific opinions. They have an obligation to declare their political and value assumptions and how much they have affected their selection and interpretation of scientific evidence.' At the end of the article he proposes several suggestions to improve the global climate debate, including this point: 'Let us resist the politicization of science and oppose the term "scientific consensus," which is always achieved only by a loud minority, never by a silent majority.'"
not me personally, i do not purchase cheap electronic gadgets, i never owned a PDA or mp3 player, only one cellphone i owned for several years, i am not saying the USA is totally innocent but i think partisan politics cause a lot of the bad rap, just watch CNN's Headline news in the morning and the Air Traffic Report (all those commercial aircraft in the sky on a daily basis) rush hour traffic on the streets everyday too...
i own an S-10 chevy pickup with a little four cylinder engine (2.2CU.IN) that only gets driven 2 to 3 days a week locally (semi-retired & work part time)...
i do recycle my trash, i recycle, tin cans, aluminum cans, plastic, paper, cardboard, when i started recycling = the trash i take to the curb for the sanitation crew to pick up went from a 30 gallon can full down to a five gallon bucket...
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
Mod him up you fascists.
I was wonder how we could use Hitler to denounce climate change. Problem solved! Godwin's law upheld again!
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