Simon Singh Talks With Wired About His Libel Battle

smellsofbikes writes "Wired has a short but pithy interview with Simon Singh about his defense against a libel suit brought by the British Chiropractic Association, in which he spent more than $200,000 and emerged victorious."

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Re:Great Quote

[Anonymous Coward]

Replace Jesus with Jobs or Bill. Replace science with android or linux. This happens every day on slashdot.

Corroborated, not trusted

[mangu]

trusted their assertions that both, CO2 does contribute and that Humans are the major cause of Global Warming.

Your "reasoning" is reminding me of one of the "young earth" religious dogmas, the one in which god created the earth full of fossils that seem to be very old just to show how fallible science is. If you start doubting everything equally without sorting out the reliability of the information, then you are using blind dogma, not reason.

I did an experiment that corroborated the arguments for anthropogenic global warming. I have never seen any denialist present some experiment that could be used to demonstrate that either there is no global warming or that other effects are causing it.

In view of the facts that I have determined to be true by my own experiment, I assume the scientists who say global warming exists and is caused by human activities are more trustworthy than those who deny these claims.

Re:So Singh Believes in Global Warming

[Alistair Hutton]

I remember the 1970's plenty well enough to recall that the great fear then was, are you ready for this, Global Cooling! The Earth was going to freeze in 30 years and we were all going to die through mass starvation because crops wouldn't grow. And yes, the Climate Scientists of that time were all behind that farce as well. How quickly things change.

You are either a liar, wilfully ignorant or suffering from some kind of dellusion, there was no global consensus on Global Cooling. It was a theory (based on the proven effects of particulates caused by pollution blotting out the sun) held by a small group of scientists but it was not fully tested. When the full spectrum of evidence was examined it was shown that the warming effects of pollution would outweigh the cooling effects.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/01/the-global-cooling-myth/