On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Janice Matchett wrote:
> I equate the naive, duped Ph.Ds (who trusted in "peer-reviewed" people) cited
> below - to be in the same category as those who fall for the embarrassing
> dog and pony "human induced global warming" show put on by Algore. While
> reading The Maharishi Caper below, just substitute Algore's name for Deepak's
> and the "consensus" scientists for those highly esteemed physicians and
> academicians who were - and still are - taken in by him.
I get tired of reading this sort of thing. Human induced global warming is
a serious but difficult scientific issue. I can't imagine any scientist
worthy of the name who looks to a nonscientist politician to give him the
answers to scientific questions. I don't buy a shaving lather because some
athletic hero endorses it on television, and I don't decide purely
scientific results based on whether I agree or disagree with someone's
politics. Once scientists establish the existence of a problem and
convince the politicians of it, then it is appropriate for the politicians
to wrestle with what to do about it, but scientists don't look to
politicians to do their science for them.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
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