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Truthiness and factiness : Comments

By Don Aitkin, published 5/1/2017

If ‘truthiness’ is a gut feeling of truth whatever the facts, then ‘factiness’ is using actual facts to paint a misleading truth.

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Don Don, the grey goose is gone and the fox has left the town-o:
Like all religions, they end in confusion and madness.
Is it a "yay" for the Da Vinci Code nay sayers, or a "yay" for the mad Gnostics?

What thinnest thoug Nickname nick?
Posted by diver dan, Thursday, 5 January 2017 12:07:12 PM
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About the same time , we had PM John Howard and his 'not a core promise' !

In other words , say anything.... just like our 'Eco Scientists' are prone to doing .... it doesn't have to be correct.
Posted by Aspley, Thursday, 5 January 2017 12:55:14 PM
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With the vulgar adolescent orange haired "reality" TV fake persona soon to be in charge, and using Twitter like a brash no-nothing adolescent, wall-to-wall lying now floats freely with no pretense to be anchored in any kind of verifiable evidence.

Just the fact that he uses Twitter and apparently will continue to do so when he actually becomes president intrinsically cheapens and degrades the USA body politic, and by extension the entire world.

Any sense of reasoned sobriety in the very serious matter of the governance of the worlds most powerful state having been flushed down the toilet by the pussy-grabber in chief.
Posted by Daffy Duck, Thursday, 5 January 2017 1:43:49 PM
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Posted by Pinja3275, Thursday, 5 January 2017 2:50:08 PM
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In the case of climate change denial, neither truth nor facts are worth a fig in the minds of those who don't want it to be true!

Robby Burns said, facts are chiels tha' dinna whinge. And that's the problem for (paid for comment?) coal advocate Don?

Robbie Burns, were he here Don, might've said, two facts ye canna argue wi' Professor, is a sun. in waning phase since the mid seventies, (NASA) canna produce a record warmest ever year, followed closely by many more of the same, as a trend line on an accurate graph! (Hot of the press!) With 2016, the hottest ever recorded! FACT!

Simply put, intelligent folk, with an intelligent plan and intelligently led, can use climate change, whether real, a scam or just a figment of overwrought imaginations, to usher in a period of energy driven, unprecedented prosperity! (Be it crapiness or clapedoutness? Or just problematic for coal fired profits) Profitiness?

And as simple as decarbing our punch drunk and staggering economy, with cheaper than coal, cleaner than coal, safer than coal, easily recovered, abundant (less radioactive than a banana) thorium!

And enough in our topsoil to power the planet for the next 1,000 years! And thousands more if we mined thorium rich igneous rock!

Look, if I were to step outside my backdoor and fill a one cubic metre box with dirt, then apply ultra simple gravity separation, I'd likely recover around 8 grams of thorium, with a recovery cost of around $100.00 dollars all up? And enough, ready to use as is, non-enriched thorium, to power my house and car for the next 10 years? That's a dollar a year Don!

The real terror for the four trillion a year fossil fuel industry, and virtually all who directly or indirectly, profit from it? Given it would decimate their industry and their profits streams/cash flows/grant money Don!?

I'm not worried if the fossil fuel industry and or, their paid for comment advocates, get rich or poor Don, just my fellow Australians/the rest of us! Very large needle and tiny tiny camel? Don?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Thursday, 5 January 2017 3:27:36 PM
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Using selective, cherry picked facts, to paint a misleading picture, seems to be you particular forte, Don? Or should that read, forteiness?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Thursday, 5 January 2017 3:47:33 PM
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