I like scientists, being a nerd-girl myself. I mean REAL scientists. These are the guys and gals who sweat their butts off in the desert dinosaur fields every summer. Or, conversely, freeze them off drilling ice cores on top of a Greenland glacier. What we’ve got today are mainly a bunch of “lobbyists”, skilled at writing grants and then “adjusting” the data to “prove” whatever the payer wants to advertise.
Real scientists know that there is no such thing as settled science, despite what the AGW zealots preach (endlessly). You’re always another data set away from a new direction. That’s what makes it valuable. And true scientists are rare. Always have been. Most everyone else was farming, herding, manufacturing or soldiering. Now we spend the bulk of our time playing with our phones.
Sadly, few ever get beyond the headlines on those phones. Coffee Makes You Fat, Study Finds. Now if you go to the actual “study” you’ll find it thin beyond words. A sloppy, poorlyexecuted examination of a very few participants over a very short time period. But people continue to bite on that hook and drag it down, right along with the line and sinker. I put a lot of blame for that on our media. They bury the “disclaimers” at the end and blast the headline 24/7.
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