In early May, newspapers across the country reported that a team of "adventurers" from Minnesota was setting off to "document climate change" at the North Pole.Why does the myth of objectivity still shield biased scientists and reporters?
According to newspaper reports, they aim to "draw [attention to] the gradual warming of Earth's climate" and "hope to convince skeptics, especially in the Bush administration, that global warming is real...."
In other words, this summer will bring a barrage of misinformation about the Earth's ice structures provided by non-scientists who make casual observations and then claim they know what caused the situations they are observing.
Scientists, of course, do not operate this way. They don't start their work with a political ax to grind, with the aim of "drawing attention" to something. They don't make a few observations and then jump to conclusions about causation. And they don't ignore the work of scientists who have gone before them.
Scientists, these Minnesota two are not. And yet we'll no doubt hear more about their "research" than we have about the work that really matters -- the science.
(via The Art of the Blog)
4 comments:
You mean someone actually reads posts below a few days ago? I'm shocked, shocked! ;-)
Keep up the great work,
The Artist from The Art of the Blog
Yep, wouldn't want to start with a premise and build your evidence to fit, would you? Wouldn't want to start with, say, a book, a then find and bend evidence to fit your initial premise....
Thes guys are to Climate-science as the Piltdown Man was to Archaeology - a means to sell tickets to the masses of Eco-rubes and leftwing rubberneckers - which is the big non-Governmental funding source for their massively wealthy Eco-Un-Corporations and pseudo Non-Profits, whose Directors and Boards receive hefty financial packages scaring up dollars.
taotb:
Thanks. And, by the way, I don't think of it as reading past posts so much as stealing great thoughts! ;>)
Anonymous:
Do I detect a satirical reference to the Bible?
DirtCrashr:
Yup. It goes along with my "party inversion" observation. In the same way left and right traded ideology and confidence in the sagacity of the American electorate, left and right exchanged faith about our future. Whether stemming from post-modern nihilism or simply parade-of-horribles fundraising, liberals tumbled into a pessimistic tailspin at almost exactly the same moment Ronald Reagan and 49 states saw the sunrise signal "Morning in America."
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