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Originally Posted by Gayle
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Gayle, I really hate to see you sucked in by this. Most scientists spend their lives working to shore up the reigning world view - the dominant paradigm - and those who disagree are always fewer in number. The drive to conformity is accentuated by peer review, (a term Billcat is very fond of). But this ensures that only papers in support of the paradigm appear in the literature and by public funding that gives money to research into the prevailing "paradigm of doom." It is worth noting that rebels who challenge prevailing orthodoxies are often proved right.
I remain a skeptic on the subject of man-made global warming because I see a fair amount of fraud and misinformation being bandied about.