On 10/01/2021 21:07, alister wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 18:12:39 +0000, Jim H wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 16:54:52 GMT, in
>> , alister 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> --
>>> A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and
>>> making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually
>>> die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
>>>   -- Max Planck
>>
>>
>> This was more the case in the 60s when science played a significant role
>> in education at the HS level due to our push to catch up withthe
>> Russians in space. But for many years now science has been given short
>> shrift and whacky ideas have gained a strong foothold. And it's not
>> "politically correct" to tell the whackos they're dumber than a bag of
>> hammers and crazier than a ferret on crack... which they are despite the
>> attempt to use "political correctness" to shield them.
>
> That was a randomly generated fortune cookie
> I have to say how pleasantly surprised I am to see how apt it turned out
> to be :-)
>
Apt, but wrong.


>
>


--
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early
twenty-first century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a
globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and,
on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer
projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to
contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.

Richard Lindzen

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