Re:The melting of Antarctica
by Frondo on Monday March 16, 2015 @03:25PM
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You can learn basic climatology in an afternoon. The fiddly details scientists make careers out of? Probably not.
You can also learn the germ theory of disease in an afternoon. The fiddly biological bits of how antibiotics actually interact with germs? Probably not.
For the companies that rake in tons of cash selling fossil fuels, it's been an incredible bit of propaganda to lie about the details and get people to doubt scientists.
I guess if there were enough money to be made keeping people sick with bacterial infections (heh, Big Disease), we'd probably see the same thing, but with germ-theory deniers.
Re:The melting of Antarctica
by Karunamon on Monday March 16, 2015 @03:48PM
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That's always been my other reason to believe that the anti-AGW folks are likely full of it - yeah, there's money in science, but it's a lot less than the money being thrown around by Big Oil.
You can also learn the germ theory of disease in an afternoon. The fiddly biological bits of how antibiotics actually interact with germs? Probably not.
For the companies that rake in tons of cash selling fossil fuels, it's been an incredible bit of propaganda to lie about the details and get people to doubt scientists.
I guess if there were enough money to be made keeping people sick with bacterial infections (heh, Big Disease), we'd probably see the same thing, but with germ-theory deniers.