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8. What's curious is how they hate it selectively,

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 02:34 PM

Aug 2015

the selection based entirely on their ideology. They happily benefit from the wonders of medicine, satellite detection of economic resources, etc., and are amazed at its marvels like landing a probe on a passing asteroid, but if you mention the age of the earth, or the global patterns of sea-ice loss, etc., the science is in the hire of devil, the god or petroleum haters.

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Question: Where does the 97% of climate scientists come from? Answer: [View all] skip fox Aug 2015 OP

But not true cynics HassleCat Aug 2015 #1

I agree, somethng like this, or a complex ot such things skip fox Aug 2015 #2

The deniers hook on to very likely mankind yeoman6987 Aug 2015 #7

If their motives really were to board the gravy train truebluegreen Aug 2015 #3

I didn't think I was making an excuse for them, except skip fox Aug 2015 #5

Sorry, I didn't intend to imply that you were excusing them; truebluegreen Aug 2015 #10

No problem. I was just clarifying. skip fox Aug 2015 #13

I know... Wounded Bear Aug 2015 #9

the reason certain people hate science olddots Aug 2015 #4

There are many who hate science because hifiguy Aug 2015 #6

What's curious is how they hate it selectively, skip fox Aug 2015 #8

K&R Tobin S. Aug 2015 #11

Personally I think the race to toast, or skip fox Aug 2015 #12