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Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech
An anonymous reader writes "Lamar Smith, a global warming skeptic, will become the new chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Someone who disagrees with the vast majority of scientists will be given partial jurisdiction over NASA, EPA, DOE, NSF, NOAA, and the USGS. When will candidates who are actually qualified to represent science or at a minimum show an interest in it be the representatives of science with regard to political decision-making?"
Lamar happens to be the dickbag that keeps trying to push things like SOPA... just keep that in mind.
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Lamar Smith is a Christian Scientist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_S._Smith#Personal_life
Christian Scientists believe that sickness and disease are the result of fear, ignorance, or sin, and should be healed through prayer or introspection.
Christian Science is opposed to science and uses the appearance of being a science to give itself extra legitimacy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Science
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Lamar Smith is the Representative of the 21st Congressional district of Texas which contains parts of the Austin and San Antonio metro areas. It's also gerrymandered to hell and back, specifically designed to break up the citizens of those two metro areas.
" but in this case knowledgeable people are divided"
NO! they are not. It's is a fake controversy manufactured for rating and the illusion of debate. Nothing more.
The experts in the field have consensus.
"So basically you're saying that what you believe to be true is a "well established fact" "
no. AGW is a well established fact.
As the poster stated: Anyone who opposed something that has a well established facts is a denier. The ONLY exception is if you bring forth a different testable idea. At which point you see if the data fits and have actual scientific debate.
You may have never heard the term 'denier' before the holocaust denier issue, but it has been used for other things for at least 30 years that I personally know of.
A denier is someone who denies facts. YOU are the one that tried to connect to the holocaust. There is a logical fallacy there, you might want to look it up.
If you want real world examples look at China. AGW harm there growth more then anyone on the country, and they say it's real. Look at the predictions, there only fault is that they are turning out to be too conservative.
But you don't understand the literature, so you refuse to believe the community they is experts in the field.
That makes no sense. I'ts like not understanding set theory so you refuse to accept that Cartesian product is real, and the Georg cantor was on the doll of big Maths.
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