Anti-Science: Those Who Wish to Debate Climate Threatened with Death or Jail
by George Washington
ZeroHedge.com
03/23/2014
Preface: The scientific method requires allowing a free-for-all of hypotheses, which then rise or fall based upon the results of actual experiments. In other words, science means that you throw out theories – no matter how good they look on paper – that are disproven by experimental results, and adopt those confirmed by the results. [Economics is supposed to do that, too … but hasn’t.]
For example, imprisoning Galileo for life because he didn’t agree with the “accepted” consensus that the Sun revolved around the Earth was not a great example of the scientific method. Instead of conducting experiments to see whether the Earth or Sun were the center of the Solar System, those with the prevailing view simply silenced the dissenter.
Anyone who has studied the history of science knows that many theories that were universally accepted and “known” to be true turned out to be false. See these examples from the Houston Chronicle and the Guardian.
Noam Chomsky said years ago that he would submit to fascism if it would help combat global warming:
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