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GLOBAL WARMING - A Case Study in Groupthink - Christopher Booker
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[h=2]March for Politically Correct Science flops – almost no one turns up[/h]
Martin Place, Central Sydney — the raging crowd gathers to chant for Approved, Groupthink “Science”[SUP] TM[/SUP]
This was the second annual “March for Science“.Apparently,4,999,900 people had better things to do.
March for politically correct science, 2018
This photo is patched together from the SBS news pan across the crowd in the centre of the largest city in Australia.
The turnout was so small, journalists didn’t even try to make up a number. They just said “demonstrators” plural, “rallied in eight cities across Australia”. So there were at least two people at each city. “Congrats”.
The Sydney rally even had Triple J celebrity, Adam Spencer. They presumably also had free advertising on the ABC beforehand. It didn’t help much.
[h=3]Science without debate is just propaganda, it’s no wonder no one cares[/h]Having taken all the public passion, controversy and competition out of science, the masters of Groupthink have destroyed it as a spectator sport. Who wants to watch a football game where the result is fixed and everyone knows it? Public interest in science was settled in 1990 — at zero.
If the Academy of Science wanted to make science a million times more popular it would arrange real televised debates, with the best from both sides on actual important controversial issues. That would inspire debates in schools. Kids would learn more about the scientific method in one hour of debate than in thirty years of approved consensus litany.
In Melbourne, apparently the biggest threat to the planet looks like steak and eggs.
March for Science, Melbourne.
Unkind impartial commentators might have described these protests as small fringe groups, with far lower than expected numbers and a disappointing turnout. Though there were no unkind commentators at SBS, and there was no aerial crowd shot either.
Despite that, with cameras kept at half mast, the lackluster event was still used as an excuse to rerun the agitprop message on prime time news and share how one random firefighty person is sure fires are different now. More free advertising for the importance of Big Government by a Big-Government broadcaster. (SBS is our baby ABC).
If it had been skeptics instead, that got less than 100 people to a major event, TV cameras would have turned up to tell the world how dismal it was.
Group-thinkers on science should stop,
And ask why their rallies all flop,
And try to relate,
To a reasoned debate,
Perhaps then, the penny would drop.
–Ruairi
Martin Place, Central Sydney — the raging crowd gathers to chant for Approved, Groupthink “Science”[SUP] TM[/SUP]
This was the second annual “March for Science“.Apparently,4,999,900 people had better things to do.
March for politically correct science, 2018
The turnout was so small, journalists didn’t even try to make up a number. They just said “demonstrators” plural, “rallied in eight cities across Australia”. So there were at least two people at each city. “Congrats”.
The Sydney rally even had Triple J celebrity, Adam Spencer. They presumably also had free advertising on the ABC beforehand. It didn’t help much.
[h=3]Science without debate is just propaganda, it’s no wonder no one cares[/h]Having taken all the public passion, controversy and competition out of science, the masters of Groupthink have destroyed it as a spectator sport. Who wants to watch a football game where the result is fixed and everyone knows it? Public interest in science was settled in 1990 — at zero.
If the Academy of Science wanted to make science a million times more popular it would arrange real televised debates, with the best from both sides on actual important controversial issues. That would inspire debates in schools. Kids would learn more about the scientific method in one hour of debate than in thirty years of approved consensus litany.
In Melbourne, apparently the biggest threat to the planet looks like steak and eggs.
March for Science, Melbourne.
Unkind impartial commentators might have described these protests as small fringe groups, with far lower than expected numbers and a disappointing turnout. Though there were no unkind commentators at SBS, and there was no aerial crowd shot either.
Despite that, with cameras kept at half mast, the lackluster event was still used as an excuse to rerun the agitprop message on prime time news and share how one random firefighty person is sure fires are different now. More free advertising for the importance of Big Government by a Big-Government broadcaster. (SBS is our baby ABC).
If it had been skeptics instead, that got less than 100 people to a major event, TV cameras would have turned up to tell the world how dismal it was.
Group-thinkers on science should stop,
And ask why their rallies all flop,
And try to relate,
To a reasoned debate,
Perhaps then, the penny would drop.
–Ruairi
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[h=1]Confessions of a Merchant of Doubt[/h]Posted on 16 Apr 18 by JOHN RIDGWAY • 7 Comments
I hear that it is the height of arrogance for CAGW sceptics to criticise the climate scientists without themselves having any experience or expertise in the subject. Apparently, if they are not able or prepared to offer an alternative thesis resulting from the fruits of their own scientific studies, then they should just shut up, … Continue reading →
I hear that it is the height of arrogance for CAGW sceptics to criticise the climate scientists without themselves having any experience or expertise in the subject. Apparently, if they are not able or prepared to offer an alternative thesis resulting from the fruits of their own scientific studies, then they should just shut up, … Continue reading →
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I've been saying this for years.
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You're not alone, there are a lot of people who agree with that essay.
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Climate cash[h=1]Texan Professor: “Is the [climate] science settled? It does not matter”[/h]Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to University of Austin Research Associate Todd Davidson, preparing for war on climate change means we should disregard scientific uncertainty. Commentary: We Should Prepare for Climate Change Like We Prepare for War Climate change poses a more significant threat to global security than the low probability event of a…
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It’s like listening to a salesman at an electronics store trying to warn you of
the dangers of not buying the extended warranty package. - - Misha Burnett
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[h=2]Hack, Now Ex-Bellingcat, Gets Climategate Timezones Backwards[/h]Jul 4, 2019 – 10:33 AM
Bellingcat’s Iggy Ostanin, [update: who Eliot Higgins says is now ex-Bellingcat] recently claimed to have discovered that the nomenclature of Climategate-1 emails was based on Unix timestamps and that the nomenclature proved that Russians hacked CRU from timezone +05:00. Amidst much uninformed hyperventilating. Ostanin’s assertions were swiftly retweeted by Andy Revkin, Roger Harrabin, Ken Rice and many others. However, his claims are backwards – or perhaps, in true Mannian style, upside down.
Bellingcat’s Iggy Ostanin, [update: who Eliot Higgins says is now ex-Bellingcat] recently claimed to have discovered that the nomenclature of Climategate-1 emails was based on Unix timestamps and that the nomenclature proved that Russians hacked CRU from timezone +05:00. Amidst much uninformed hyperventilating. Ostanin’s assertions were swiftly retweeted by Andy Revkin, Roger Harrabin, Ken Rice and many others. However, his claims are backwards – or perhaps, in true Mannian style, upside down.
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[h=1]Climategate: Nearly ten years later[/h][FONT="]Climate alarmists are still promoting junk science, fossil fuel bans and wealth redistribution Dr. Kelvin Kemm This 17th of this month marks the tenth anniversary of “Climategate” – the release of thousands of emails to and from climate scientists who had been (and still are) collaborating and colluding to create a manmade climate crisis that…
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Groupthink: Marching to a Single Drumbeat — The James G ...
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Jun 16, 2009 - Klein and Stern quote the famed Swedish sociologist and Nobel laureate Gunnar Myrdal, who wrote, “Generally speaking, we can observe that ...You've visited this page 2 times. Last visit: 9/9/20
[FONT="]". . . For all their professed commitment to open inquiry and the pursuit of truth, faculty members are mostly like everyone else—they don’t care to have their ideas challenged. It’s more pleasant to have people around who nod in agreement at your statements and writings. . . . "[/FONT]