What is the value of the State?

[Steven Schear]

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.


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" <zen at 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.
>
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