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Re: Moderates, Idiots, Apathy, and Mass Hysteria – A post-holiday rant Floffe Send a noteboard - 06/01/2010 05:06:33 PM
As a supporter of the idea of man-made Global Warming it is always a tooth grinding experience for me to have to listen to simpering idiots who if they were given a list of subatomic particles; muon, proton, and moron, would have problems figuring out which was false and invariably proceed to lecture other people about 'scientific consensus'. Stop it. Seriously, if you don't know calculus you're opinion on global warming, fact or fiction, is worth about as much as the Zimbabwean Dollar. And if you didn't catch that reference, add economics to the list of topics you really shouldn't open your food-hole about. I don't care how much you think you know about the matter, if you don't know what the f a temperature gradient is, you just aren't qualified to have an opinion, and citing this or that piece of evidence that you don't know jack about just tells everyone who does know that you're a moron, the subatomic particle produced by the collision of the knowledgeon and the minimungraduatingstandardon.

But there's a consensus! Personally, I don't have a Ph.D. So I could see them skipping me, but a lot the guys I went to school with were postdocs while I was a grad student certainly do, and none of them ever mentioned getting a phone call about it. Oh, but you're a physicist, this is climatology! Well, I advise you to look up what climatology is, you may be surprised.

It's all a hoax! Oh crap. BS, come on, yes scientists lie like everyone else, but rarely about their professional work, especially when others will challenge them out of habit if nothing else. I don't think I could get 9 out of 10 defense attorneys to lie about their clients, do you really think some massive conspiracy is being waged that the vast majority of scientists signed on to?

Nice, I think you just managed to piss off every side at once. Impressive!

What's the other big one? Medicine. Look, water doesn't have a memory and some nutter who wandered of to wherever seeking enlightenment really shouldn't be prescribing you stuff, they aren't allowed to, this may be some sort of hint, maybe? Got chest pains? Maybe put down the herbal remedies and see a licensed medical practitioner? Don't rush on my account, the inner-cynic has me today, as far as I'm concerned you're a Darwin Award waiting to happen, another wonderful herbal remedy that used to be popular – mercury. Let me know how that works for you.

Mercury isn't related to herbs. "Natural" remedy, possibly yes.



The rest wasn't quite coherent enough for me to follow.
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