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Climate alarmists on the run appeared as an editorial in The Washington Times. The following remarks caught my interest:

Faith in man-made global warming had never been more widespread, with liberal academics and media subjecting to ridicule any who dared question the "settled science."

Ridicule. That's a favored tool. Practically speaking how is it working out? We'll find out in November.
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There is no legitimate reason to keep it a secret. It would also be nice to know who did the banning.

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Bryan Appleyard wrote On Experts and Truth. He notes an article in New Scientist, by Debora MacKenzie, which raised the issue of denialism. Appleyard then delves into the notion of expertise:

HT: Clare

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The story of physics professor Jonathan Katz. Evidence of his crimes against humanity:

The human body was not designed to share hypodermic needles, it was not designed to be promiscuous, and it was not designed to engage in homosexual acts. Engaging in such behavior is like riding a motorcycle on an icy road without a helmet. It may be possible to get away with it for a while, and a few misguided souls may get a thrill out of doing so, but sooner or later (probably sooner) the consequences will be catastrophic. Lethal diseases spread rapidly among people who do such things.

The following is from Thought Provoker:

FYI,

I just posted this on After the Bar Closed…
link [TP, you'll have to post the link, again.]

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As of today, March 21, there was access to all four Meyer/Falk comments. So maybe there never was any censorship, just technical difficulties.

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Well, to be accurate, over at his blog, Darwin's God, Cornelius Hunter wrote:

In his book The Making of the Fittest, Sean Carroll writes “the degree of similarity in DNA is an index of the [evolutionary] relatedness of species.” [98] This can only make sense if we first assume evolution is true. But Carroll's book is a defense of evolution, intended to demonstrate that the theory is true without first assuming it is true. He seeks to prove evolution is true, but he begins with evolutionary reasoning and interpretations. That is circular reasoning. Unfortunately such circular reasoning is a common motif in the evolution genre.

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