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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

The Myth Of ‘Settled Science’

Computer models of climate change have been dead wrong, yet alarmists aim to quell debate.

I repeat: I’m not a global-warming believer. I’m not a global-warming denier. I’ve long believed that it cannot be good for humanity to be spewing tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. I also believe that those scientists who pretend to know exactly what this will cause in 20, 30, or 50 years are white-coated propagandists.

“The debate is settled,” asserted propagandist-in-chief Barack Obama in his latest State of the Union address. “Climate change is a fact.” Really? There is nothing more anti-scientific than the very idea that science is settled, static, impervious to challenge. Take a non-climate example. It was long assumed that mammograms help reduce breast cancer deaths. This fact was so settled that Obamacare requires every insurance plan to offer mammograms (for free, no less).

Now we learn from a massive randomized study — 90,000 women followed for 25 years — that mammograms may have no effect on breast-cancer deaths. Indeed, one out of five of those diagnosed by mammogram receives unnecessary radiation, chemo, or surgery.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It is funny how those on the left that are promoting their huge tax on carbon and reduced energy availability have been stating "The debate is over" when there never was a debate.
The warming alarmist Nazis have been predicting doom and gloom for 20 years and not of it has been true. Facts are stubborn things after all.
In fact there hasn't been any "warming" for 17 years so now they are changing the tag line to "Climate change"
Their early predictions of drought, lack of winter, crop failures are all wrong so now they're saying cold excess snow, floods are all signs that they are right.
Pathetic, it is really pathetic.