On 3 March 2014 05:33, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm. Show me how I disinformed? Oh! By disagreeing. Ah! But what are the > facts? What is the behavior of pols and billionaires? Where's the panic > over inundating waters? No crash programs? I guess its easy to be lied to, > if one is bought off by ideology in the first place. The cause and effect > part of the brain must go to sleep. >
Hang on, spudboy, if I read you right you are taking personally a comment I made about the behaviour of certain organisations who want to give a spurious scientific front to their already-decided views. Unless you're a member of the Discovery institute or something, that wasn't directed at you personally! > -----Original Message----- > From: LizR <[email protected]> > To: everything-list <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, Mar 2, 2014 1:12 am > Subject: Re: The solar example of a town in Germany > > This is kind of a touchstone for these disinformation based > organisations. They created institutes specifically to push some agenda. > We've had tobacco, big oil, and of course the anti-evolution lot, all with > their own "think tanks" and "institutes". Personally I reckon they got the > idea from L Ron Hubbard, who once got into a conversation with fellow > science fiction writers - I forget who, say James Blish and John W Campbell > Jr, for the sake of argument - and they all proposed crazy ideas about how > one could create a science based religion. "We could have little devices > that let people measure their state of spiritual health!" they chortled, > imagining this was just one of those games SF writers love to indulge in - > little realising that Hubbard was making mental notes of everything they > said. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
