It's a short letter and should be read in its entirety. As a clear thinker Mr. Lewis, doesn't waste words.
3. In the interim the ClimateGate scandal broke into the news, and the machinations of the principal alarmists were revealed to the world. It was a fraud on a scale I have never seen, and I lack the words to describe its enormity. Effect on the APS position: none. None at all. This is not science; other forces are at work.When I read this, I thought, too bad there aren't more people like Richard Feynman alive today to shake things up.
Interesting that Eisenhower was, similarly to Reagan & Bush, always referred to in the media as a low-brow yet he was able to see even then where federal dollars in outrageous abundance would lead.
Who controls the purse strings, controls all even arguably the smartest people on the planet.
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Scientists have damaged the credibility of their profession beyond repair at this point. In the medium term, that will hurt America since fewer people will become scientists and there is some need for them from an economic standpoint.
We need science to advance our civilization as well as our bottom line, but can we do what needs to be done, i.e., dismantle the federal/state/local bureaucracy?
This is not science; other forces are at work..
Yes. Religious forces.
LOL. I'm wondering if Hey Skipper can look at any problematic socio-politico-economic phenomenon and not see some religious-like influence as being one of dominant factors.
It seems to me that base human motivators like greed, lust for power, the craving of prestige, the difficulty of humans admitting they're wrong, and groupthink can pretty much completely explain the scientists' behaviors.
IMO, if there are religious forces involved, it is the interactions between the scientists acting as "priests" and non-scientists who followed their "teachings" like true believers. But the American Physical Society is about money and prestige and by selling their prestige for money, they're likely to end up with neither.
Bret, I interpret Skipper's comment to mean nexactly what you said above and it's not just science, all of academe is caught up in it.
That's the most depressing thing about the left's takeover of the narrative -- there's no room for reasoned discourse or differing opinions anymore.
Bret:
LOL. I'm wondering if Hey Skipper can look at any problematic socio-politico-economic phenomenon and not see some religious-like influence as being one of dominant factors.
One word: Gaia.
Perhaps if I had said "Religious belief" instead of religious forces.
I think globalization is a problematic s-p-e development, but there is nothing religious about it.
In contrast, communism does not exist without the capacity for religious belief among its adherents.
Just so with warmenism. The belief in it is religious in nature.
That is the other force at work: the human capacity to believe in universalist assertions unsupported by any material evidence.
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