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They are banned because it's the Science forum, and the scientific consensus is as much in favour of Global Warming as it is in favour of Special Relativity. T
by HarryHirsch 13y ago
They are banned because it's the Science forum, and the scientific consensus is as much in favour of Global Warming as it is in favour of Special Relativity. The climate change deniers do nothing but add noise.
Now, politics is a different beast altogether. It has nothing to do with observable reality and everything with who you know or can get to float your boat. Anyone who does not believe this is advised to read Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses and then come back. Climate change deniers are playing politics. That, or they are being played at politics.
- mindslight 13y agoA key difference is that special relativity makes predictions that have been repeatedly tested. > Climate change deniers ... are being played at politics I wholeheartedly agree with this. And the same thing goes for the supporters as well. Once politics enters the landscape, it's there. It affects who gets considered a 'peer', which publications are considered 'objective', who gets funded, and scientists' standings at their employers. One of the key tenets of science is that by repeatably checking predictions, we can put a damper on humans' standard tribal behavior. The harder these predictions are to check (in this case, due to timescale and noisefloor), the less science actually works. When the results are then repeated dogmatically instead of questioned skeptically, it starts to seem an awful lot like religion.