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The Climate Wars and the damage to science : Comments
By Matt Ridley, published 9/11/2015Most disappointing is the way that science has joined in turning a blind eye to the distortion and corruption of the scientific process itself.
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If a bunch of theologians call their activity "science", that doesn't mean it's science, does it? It goes by your intellectual methodology, not by what name you call it you fools.
Your intellectual methodology is
a) before entering the discussion, repose open-ended unquestioning credulity in an ideology-manufacturing monopoly corporation
b) enter the discusson having assumed all issues in your own favour
c) meet all challenges by repeating your assumptions, appeal to absent authority, active evasion, and ad hominem.
All you need to understand the whole debate is to know that the people the warmists keep referring off to are sharing the same methodology. That' what ant and tony are calling "science".
But notice they refuse to answer 1. How they know what the planet's temperature should be, 2. How they know what the ecology woild be in either case, and 3. How they know what people's values shoild be?
It's nonense to call this jumble of arbitrary moralising "science".
They people are not just fools but liars.