On Jan 18, 5:44*am, Tom Gardner wrote:
On Jan 18, 11:10*am, delboy wrote:
*I am a trained

and qualified scientist in a different field, so I am used to
evaluating data. I think I can spot dodgy and biased data being used
for political purposes when I see it.

History is littered with with eminent scientists (in one field)
making pronouncements about a different field, and falling
flat on their faces.

Or more a more recently example would be eminent scientists cooking
the books in their own field for personal reasons or the CAUSE. It
played out like assembling a jigsaw puzzle. You start with a pile of
factual seemly unrelated pieces and try to put them together. Some fit
but others resist assembly and for those you get out the scissors. The
pieces the scissors can't handle you hide under the rug. Anyone poking
about under rugs is subject to swift attack and if they were not part
of the assembly team it isn't going to be pretty.
Only a fool would question that there has been global warming. You
only need to check the earths temperature history over the last
400,000 years to see that it has gone up 5 times. Hmm but wait that
means it has also gone down 4 times. Never mind that lets just change
the name from global warming or cooling to climate change. Now who
could argue with that since climate has been changing for as long as
records exist. Problem solved now we can get on with imposing limits
on everyone and redistributing wealth. Its for the kids you know.
Thank God the scientists came up with this one or the politicians
would have had to invented it. Now they only have to mix the cool-
aid..