Michael Crichton's famous lecture drops the mike on consensus vs.
   science and should be required reading for anyone with an open mind on
   this topic.
   [1]http://www.burtonsys.com/climate/Aliens_Cause_Global_
   Warming_by_Michael_Crichton.html
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   On May 13, 2017 4:51 AM, "Zenaan Harkness" <[2]zen@freedbms.net> wrote:

     On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 08:27:43PM +1000, James A. Donald wrote:
     > If you have read the climategate files, you will know that the new
     > scientific method, the method of official science, is to determine
     > the truth by consensus, then look for evidence to support that
     > official truth, while ignoring or suppressing any contrary
     > evidence, and if evidence cannot be found to support official
     > truth, to just make the evidence up.
     This last bit "make the evidence up" is done with "scientific"
     models
     - often retrospective data curve fitting - and this is the problem
     they (govt paid "Scientist"s) have at the moment, their nice hockey
     stick curves (from the 1980s?) were modelled perfectly for the data,
     to fit the desired "scientific" outcome, and now the new data
     doesn't
     fit the desired hockey stick outcome, so ridiculous "scientific"
     explanations are trotted out, from "a global pause in global
     warming"
     to "important data points not previously included in the model" and
     other hogwash pseudo-"science" designed to regenerate the hockey
     stick.
     It's political bullshit, not science. They know it. We know. Anyone
     self respecting adherent to the actual scientific method knows it.
     But a lot of propaganda to the contrary of the scientific methods is
     identifying religious nuts to the discerning, which from one view is
     a public service - just not worth anywhere near the "public"
     theft-money spent on such "science" propaganda.

References

   1. http://www.burtonsys.com/climate/Aliens_Cause_Global_Warming_by_Michael_Crichton.html
   2. mailto:zen@freedbms.net