The Assault on Science

Subject: The Assault on Science Sat May 28, 2016 11:57 pm

Recently, the Attorneys General of a number of states launched an effort to use the RICO anti-organized crime statute to prosecute opponents of climate change alarmism. This truly shocking action is nothing less than an all-out attack on science.

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There are several vital issues involved here, involving not only substance but, even more importantly, process. Let’s start with the latter. Science is not a collection of facts, but a process of discovery. Alongside its sister, conscience, it is based on the signature western individualist belief that there is a fundamental property of the human mind that — when presented with sufficient information — is able to distinguish right from wrong, justice from injustice, truth from untruth. Matters of science must therefore be determined by reason, not by force. To attempt to prevail in a scientific dispute through the use of force is equivalent to the use of a gun to prevail in a courtroom, or, for that matter, of rape to prevail in courtship. It is nothing less than a criminal rejection of a basic principle of our civilization.

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The Assault on Science

The Assault on Science

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