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It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare.
Harold Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Physics,
University of California, Santa Barbara*,in his letter relinqishing his 67-year membership
in the American Physical Society
read the letter, in which a principled scientist lays out the path whereby, in his lifetime, science has abandoned the objective search for truth and become the paid whore of the highest bidder--in this case, the global warming/carbon-offset cabal. it's devastating in its heartfelt eloquence.
and it's not just climate science--far from it. the food industry's paid scientists are telling us that high-fructose corn syrup doesn't make us fat, and that genetically-modified foods and antibiotic-drenched livestock are perfectly safe, even though europe has banned them.
the pharmaceutical industry's paid scientists assure us that loading up kids with ritalin and antidepressants is perfectly safe, even as levels of bipolar disorder among young people who take such drugs is skyrocketing.
people laughed back when the tobacco industry trotted out scientists who tried to tell us smoking was perfectly safe--why is it that we as a society no longer regard such paid whores with the healthy skepticism they deserve?
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*and lest you be tempted to write prof. lewis off as some crackpot, here are a few of his creds: Former member Defense Science Board, chmn of Technology panel; Chairman DSB study on Nuclear Winter; Former member Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Former member, President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; Chairman APS study on Nuclear Reactor Safety Chairman Risk Assessment Review Group; Co-founder and former Chairman of JASON; Former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board; Served in US Navy in WW II; books: Technological Risk (about, surprise, technological risk) and Why Flip a Coin (about decision making)
