Remember
when scientists and other truth-seekers used to get all riled up about the way
the Catholic Church treated Galileo? The outcry was not over the fact that Galileo
was a "peer-reviewed" researcher, and therefore beyond question.
Quite the contrary: the argument was that, from the point of view of the quest
for truth, no one, including the representatives of official orthodoxy and
authority, ought to be regarded as beyond question. In the Michael Mann lawsuit
against Mark Steyn and National Review, it is the "award-winning
researcher" who is joining the fight for Church orthodoxy, while the
defendants are the persecuted Galileos.
Mann,
of course, is the creator of the famous "hockey stick graph" that has
been employed doggedly throughout the doctrinaire climate science community and
the mainstream media as proof that the Earth has shown a marked and
unprecedented increase in global mean temperature during the brief period of
industrial society's extreme CO2 production, which increase is consequently
cited as proof that man's industrial activity is causing the temperature rise.….ToRead More….
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