[Osx-nutters] Denial

[Chris Gehlker]

On Aug 13, 2007, at 6:23 PM, Stefano Mori wrote:

>
> On 2007-Aug-14, at 01:08, Chris Gehlker wrote:
>
>> "billions poured into the AGW worldview/
>> science". Where does that come from?
>
> Here's another source of funding, and nice specific figures:
>
> NIH spends 60 million annually on climate change and another 160
> million on health effects of climate change.
>
> Compare that to just 70 million annually on inflammatory bowel
> disease, a rather horrid and chronic condition you wouldn't wish on
> your enemies.
>
> <http://www.nih.gov/news/fundingresearchareas.htm>

I have met many people, some of them in bars, who believe that the  
problems associated with alcohol are vastly over stated. They offered  
this opinion even though they weren't be paid by and association of  
distilleries, breweries and vintners. Now by Stefano's reasoning I  
must be skeptical of anyone who asserts that alcohol is a social  
problem because so much is spent researching the issue and because so  
many  medical people and social workers are invested in the issue.

It seems to me that Stefano's reasoning can be applied to any area of  
empirical enquiry. The fact that researchers  in any area reach  
consensus is prima facie evidence that they are engaged in a  
conspiracy to fake or misinterpret the evidence.

I was surprised to hear Stefano say the cancer was a 'problem' be  
cause I know some herbalists who swear that it is not  an there  
arguments are exactly parallel to his climate argument.

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