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Zade's avatar

You really nailed it, even if by no more than a medium length blog post. There does seem to be a scientism priesthood, that would like to speak ex cathedra just as Hinton seems to advocate. Maybe this got rolling with Gallo's press conference on isolating the "AIDS virus", kicking off science by press release.

I worked for NASA as a physicist working on infrared remote sensing all during the 90s when "global warming" was the consensus. Did I believe we were going to incinerate? No, neither did my principal investigator. We were trying to build technology to explore the role of cloud cover in the thermal budget of the Earth. That technology is now widely used in handheld thermal IR imagers. Quite possibly we were able to obtain research funds because the high priests of scientism had declared a worry-bandwagon for climate heating. But good came of it in the form of atmospheric science and IR sensing technology despite the idiotic consensus-driven "science" panic over climate.

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JohnG's avatar

Reminds me of the meteorologist Alfred Wegener who published his idea of Plate Tectonics in 1912 only to be shunned by the field of Geology for decades. Then many years later, the physicist Henrik Svensmark postulated that cosmic rays have the greatest effect on Earth's climate...also shunned as a heretic. Scientific dogma is a tough hegemony to crack.

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