http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10578

I love science. I wanted to be an archeologist when I was a little girl. I have a BA from Boston University, and I had some wonderful professors there, including Dr. Lynn Margolis.

I have to re-take some courses because my degree is “old” and I am thoroughly enjoying the experience. Some classes are nursing students only. (That is “Chemistry for Nurses” “Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses” etc.) In some classes like Microbiology, the students are a mix of nursing students, pre-med students, and biology majors.

Microbiology is amazingly complex. I’m having to work very hard to keep up. When I see these young scientists working on their projects and learning from mentors, I am interested in what drives them to such dedication. Scientists are a breed apart. They are trained to look at things in a certain way. It is very difficult to communicate this to the non-science community.

Stations like Discovery and The History Channel have done a lot to make science more accessible to the general public. I truly believe the problem comes in when people watch shows like CSI or Law and Order and think that “science” is cut and dried and infallible.

Funding is so hard to come by. Either you get a govenment grant, or a drug company sponsors you, etc. How is research to remain untainted? We see the toxic results of manipulating data toward a political/economic end in the Global Warming fiasco.

I just hope the public doesn’t lose trust in science. We need more good science and math students!

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Same reason our govt wants cap and trade.  Has nothing to do with limiting pollution, but trading permits on Wall Street.

Did you know our govt just okayed Google to start selling and trading energy…ie Enron?

This govt is the perfect example of hijacking the peoples govt while they aren’t paying attention and turning it in to Fascism.

His words still ring true today.

Hide the Decline!

What struck me about Rev Amy’s comments is the philosphy of insurance. It seems like science is being used to deny insurance (both property and health) or else being used to raise the rates for some groups that the insurance companies now think are higher risk.

Perhaps private insurance is an outdated idea and we need state or community non-profit pools instead. Is our science targetting more people making “shared risk” something that for-profits cannot handle any more because their duty to their shareholders is to minimize all risk?

I’d be interested if anyone has encountered discussions or papers on this subject.

On this, I so did believe what we were being told.  And more and more it is showing to be a lie.  Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theory did a good job on this and he too was a previous believer of Al Gore.  As he said “follow the money”.

What I do know is, Al Gore insisted it was man made global warming because we now had proof that our warming was not like other trends.  And that we jumped in 2004.  OOOPS.  It turns out that the temp’s have peaked in 99-00, with not much warming in the 2nd half of the 90′s decade and that we are indeed now cooling.  That really blows to sh!t Al’s “non debatable fact”.  @#$%$#@!

Then comes the fact that the data was manipulated to show what they wanted and they threw away the data they used to help fudge the outcomes.  We only find this all out, because their emails were hacked.

Then we find out that the Himalayan melt, their number 2 BIGGIE as proof ,is also a tale.  They used a claim, not supported by any fact or data from an Indian Scientest  that the IPCC just added in to their report.

Then we find out they also added unsupported claims from civil servants in Africa about the crops.

And now we find out the Ice Shelf break off was probably due to Ocean waves, not melt.

And then I ask WHY were they all insistent on passing Cap and Trade when that would do nothing to solve the problem, but drive up energy costs.  The first step to their Global Dollar and control.

And funny how all the “coastal” areas…the most expensive…and desired, are the areas.

They have lied.  I do not trust them now.  I believe in taking care of our planet and not to add toxins, but tell me, why have we stopped hearing about sequestering carbon from Coal plants, when they were on the heals of passing Cap and Trade?

No, I think this was about power, control and money for the elite few.

And more and more I am hearing the talking point “I trust those who are smarter than me [in govt]“.  WHAT?  This is Marxism all the way. Govt is not smarter, they just get greedy and are in a position to stay in power and reap the rewards.  They are the ones you should be trusting LAST.  History has shown that!

I say they better come clean. Start dealing with real issues to solve real problems and start working on making a mends to the people.

So you’ve got me ruminating on this problem.

First, I go to some of the basic things people should think about when doing research.  In this issue over whether or not global warming and rising seas are occurring, I think of three things we should all consider when reading research:  the “argumentum ad baculum,” the consideration of whether or not research was set up so as NOT to come to “a priori” conclusions, and in more common terms “consider the source.”

But then I think personally.  I remember being very young, about junior high age, and reading a book of first-hand accounts and reporting on famous natural disasters.  The one that sticks out in my mind was the chapter on the Galveston Flood.  It terrified me, and I swore I would never live close to a coastal region.  Coming from the eastern part of Colorado, I decided I was in a good position; and I am such a homebody with a large extended family, I’ve decided to remain her most of my life.  Very few natural disasters here.

I even remember a high school senior I taught.  Her mother was from Germany.  She had relocated her family to the drylands of north-eastern Colorado because she thought it was one of the least likely places to experience a bombing.

I did live in Indianapolis for two years, and there I experienced the edge of a bad tornado.  It was not fun, and the poor 70-year-old neighbor who had lived there her entire life was always at my door every time there was a warning.  She had become so frightened by them she could not bear to be alone. 

I moved home and after some years settled in Lakewood, CO, for a few years.  Pretty safe there from natural disasters.  BUT……thanks to a lazy ditch rider, my backyard flooded on day while I was teaching a class two blocks away.  I came home to find two feet of water in the basement of my rental house.  I lost all my scrapbooks and photo albums. 

That finally blew my theory that we are protected because of where we live.

That’s what has finally left me accepting some of the old Bible passages I learned growing up in a very religious family.  “Time and chance happeneth to all.”  “All is vanity.”  These come from what is probably my favorite book of the Old Testament (or Hebrew Bible to be politically correct.)

I then have finally decided to live as the “birds of the field” and enjoy each day as it comes.

It’s that or go crazy.