Want to save a world?
Kill the automobile.
You wont do it any other way.
Back to bikes:)

Anyone with an opinion thinks that his or her opinion is the right one.

There is no point in arguing about subjects that have well a truly had a good thrashing.

Yawn!

Hmmmmm

Science!

In the medical world we get bombarded with selective-evidence-based research, the truth of which is good for a couple of years and then found to be nonsense. How does science explain that?

And how do the medical scientists explain how it is that the health of the community is inversely proportional to the amount of money poured down the medical research black hole?

80% of the science carried out in this country is a form of academic welfare, carried out in the sheltered workshops for the academically gifted. It works like this:

- spend a couple of months dreaming up how to get money from the ARC or the NHMRC. If it's medical research you'll find something that's already been researched to death and you'll put in for a grant to conduct a literature review.

- spend an other couple of months writing up a proposal

- spend 6 months waiting for a reply from the ARC or NHMRC

- spend a year conducting the experiments or collating the results of other people's research

- produce the biggest list of references in history to prove to the ARC of the NHMRC that you can read

- spend a couple of months writing it up and sending it off to a couple of journals.

- wait 6 months for an obscure African journal to publish it. Bathe in the glory and wait for the invitations to roll in.

- spend a few months swanning around the world staying in flash pubs giving poster presentations at conferences

- get a mate to invite you over to their place for a few months at his university's expense while you brown nose each other.

- Invite your mate over to your place for a couple of months at your university's expense. More brown nosing.

- prepare a joint proposal so you can fund trips back and forth until kingdom come.

Process completed with a letters to the Editor complaining government not putting enough money into research.

'The Australian government seems to credit only the very conservative end of climate scientists’ warnings, because it is acting as though we have many decades in which to adjust, and many years before anything serious needs to be under way.'

If Tim Flannery and his predictions are conservative then I would hate to see extreme. The man is deceived and unfortunately their are plenty of others who will cost the taxpayer millions who follow this rot in the name of science.

Mr. Right: except it's not about opinions, it's about evidence...

If you find it so boring, why clutter up discussion with a post like that?

You camp followers who are so free with your opinions, why don't you at least have the guts to come out from behind your silly pseudonym masks and back your opinions with your real name?