> dmb says: > Right. The thing is, the issue is not a battle of lists or even of political > bias. The important distinction here is the one between science and > politics, between peer reviewed data and vested financial interests. That's > how this debate got started. We're talking about the efforts by the current > administration to alter and supress information that threatens the profits > of giant corporations. The petition project is based on a paper that has not > been accepted by any scientific journal. It was written, in part, by a guy > who has nothing more than a BA in chemistry and involved no research. This > simply can't be compared to the work of atmospheric scientists who collect > actual data. (The National Center for Atmospheric Research, as it used to be > called, is just up the road in Boulder and my late, great father-in-law was > friends with a lot of these guys, so I tend to take this nonsense > personally. He thought Al Gore's book was substantially correct, by the > way.) anyway, in terms of the MOQ, this is a case of putting social level > values over intellectual values (And over the health and well-being of human > beings). Besides being short-sighted and downright stupid, it is wildly > immoral. Bullshit like that thoroughly deserves to be condemned. I'm not > saying the argument is bogus because Platt is immoral, I'm saying the > argument itself is immoral. Big difference.
Tell it to Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT: . http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008220 "There are so many kinds of problem people like Rigel around, he thought, but the ones who go posing as moralists are the worst. Cost-free morals. Full of great ways for others to improve without any expense to themselves. There's an ego thing in there, too. They use the morals to make someone else look inferior and that way look better themselves. It doesn't matter what the moral code is- religious morals, political morals, racist morals, capitalist morals, feminist morals, hippie morals-they're all the same. The moral codes change but the meanness and the egotism stay the same." (Lila, 7) Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
