Doom-mongering is not designed to solve problems – it is to create them and terrify us into submission.
It’s easier to fool someone than to convince them that they are being fooled.
* The government appoints a body to provide it with the advice it wants, in order to pursue the policies it wants.
*** There's just too much that's still unknown about the climate to guess how things will be in 85 to 100 years. But that's not an interesting story. People would rather read about the science fiction of roasting and flooded cities.
*** The only reliable product of an organized religion is a flock of hypocrites who feel that only *their* hypocrisy is divinely sanctioned.
*** Richard Horton, the current editor of the medical journal, The Lancet, recently stated that, " The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue."
