The Subterranean War on Science - Association for Psychological Science
By Stephan Lewandowsky, Michael E. Mann, Linda Bauld, Gerard Hastings, and Elizabeth F. Loftus
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Science denial kills...According to the World Health Organization, climate change is already claiming more than 150,000 lives annually (Patz, Campbell-Lendrum, Holloway, & Foley, 2005), and estimates of future migrations triggered by unmitigated global warming run as high as 187 million refugees (Nicholls et al., 2011).
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The conspiratorial element of denial explains why contrarians often perceive themselves as heroic dissenters who — in their imagination — are following Galileo’s footsteps by opposing a mainstream scientific “elite” that imposes its views not on the basis of overwhelming evidence but for political reasons.
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This article surveys some of the principal techniques by which the authors have been harassed; namely, cyber-bullying and public abuse; harassment by vexatious freedom-of-information (FOI) requests, complaints, and legal threats or actions; and perhaps most troubling, by the intimidation of journal editors who are acting on manuscripts that are considered inconvenient by deniers.
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Ah. Diddums. Did that nasty man want to see your working? Just tell him that FOI, cyberbullying etc. are only for use by GOOD people. Go away nasty man!
Now Mann wants to get hooked up with Lew? These people know no bounds!
Mann and Lewandowsky are perfect for each other. They both start with a conclusion and then set out to find data that supports that conclusion. Science doesn't work that way of course but getting government grants does and as Penn State pointed out, the true measure of a scientist is how much grant money can be raised.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma
"Dogma is a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true. It serves as part of the primary basis of an ideology or belief system, and it cannot be changed or discarded without affecting the very system's paradigm, or the ideology itself. They can refer to acceptable opinions of philosophers or philosophical schools, public decrees, religion, or issued decisions of political authorities."
"As a possible reaction to skepticism, dogmatism is a set of beliefs or doctrines that are established as undoubtedly in truth. They are regarded as (religious) truths relating closely to the nature of faith. The term "dogmatic" can be used disparagingly to refer to any belief that is held stubbornly, including political and scientific beliefs."
So Lewadowsky, who is at best a psychologist/psychology researcher, is in a position to *know* AGW is correct, and Mann, at best a mathemetician obsessed with producing hockey sticks, is now an expert on psychological disroders. And it jsut so happens that they are not only in agreement with eachother, but also have discovered that those who disagree with them are suffering from pathologies that they are able to diagnose. Amazing.
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