"denial of the existence of global warming, or denial of the truth of
evolution? The space race is a product of movie special effects? The earth
is flat? It is difficult for me to imagine my believing such. Do they
deserve a hearing?"

Some of these are obviousily very ridiculous but yes it is a real problem
giving controversial issues a hearing, for example alot of educational
resources have been created and taught to students on the existence of
global warming based on the impact of human carbon emissions.

>From an education point alot has been politically and personally invested in
this premise based on IPCC data but yet only recently as I'm sure many of
you are aware there has been the "Climategate" controversy whereby the
British Climatic Research Unit's computers at the University of East Anglia
where hacked. From this emails and documents have been published which show
IPCC endorsed  scientists engaged in the the falsification and destruction
of data and vindication of "sceptical scientists" with data contrary to the
global warming hypothesis. i.e the science is most definitely not closed.

See:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/British_Climatic_Research_Unit%27s_emails_hacked
Climategate: Dr. Tim Ball on the hacked CRU emails -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydo2Mwnwpac Does this deserve a hearing? Yes
most definatley otherwise an education wiki becomes non objective and
counter to the aims of educating people into the area of indoctrination.

Yes a real problem despite it being difficult to imagine.



On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Phil Bartle <[email protected]> wrote:

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