As long as money can still be made, the rightwing will never accept ANY evidence
Hell....they protected the cigarette industry for 40 years
Oh, I'm sorry, was there a Left Wing proposal to ban all cigarette sales?
Or did they just advocate raising the price to produce revenues for their coffers and their trial lawyer buddies?
Now, I don't smoke, had a lot of relatives who died of cancer, no friend to the tobacco Industry...
Whenever I hear a liberal whine about the evils of cigarettes, I am reminded of Frederick the Great's comments about Maria Theresa at the Partition of Poland. "The more she wept, the more she took!"
Here's a simple solution to the tobacco problem. Get rid of all the Cigarette taxes. Regulate tobacco like a drug. You can only get it with a doctor's prescription. The doctor is required to do regular checkups, and if he sees problems, he has to try to ween you off of them.
But liberals won't do that. Too much money for "worthy" causes involved.
Not talking about banning cigarettes
I am talking about the rightwing efforts to muddy the science linking cigarette smoking to cancer.........."There is no direct link"... "We need more study".... "we have our own scientists who disagree"
Sounds so familiar
Yes it all does
"muddy" the science, strong words from such a scientist as you
The NYT Has Been Predicting Polar Ice Melt for 128 Years
no doubt these were "peer reviewed" as well
1881: “This past Winter, both inside and outside the Arctic circle, appears to have been unusually mild. The ice is very light and rapidly melting …”
1932: “NEXT GREAT DELUGE FORECAST BY SCIENCE; Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of Seas and Flood the Continents”
1934: “New Evidence Supports Geology’s View That the Arctic Is Growing Warmer”
1937: “Continued warm weather at the Pole, melting snow and ice.”
1954: “The particular point of inquiry concerns whether the ice is melting at such a rate as to imperil low-lying coastal areas through raising the level of the sea in the near future.”
1957: “U.S. Arctic Station Melting”
1958: “At present, the Arctic ice pack is melting away fast. Some estimates say that it is 40 per cent thinner and 12 per cent smaller than it was fifteen years [ago].”
1959: “Will the Arctic Ocean soon be free of ice?”
1971: “STUDY SAYS MAN ALTERS CLIMATE; U.N. Report Links Melting of Polar Ice to His Activities”
1979: “A puzzling haze over the Arctic ice packs has been identified as a byproduct of air pollution, a finding that may support predictions of a disastrous melting of the earth’s ice caps.”
1982: “Because of global heating attributed to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide from fuel burning, about 20,000 cubic miles of polar ice has melted in the past 40 years, apparently contributing to a rise in sea levels …”
1999: “Evidence continues to accumulate that the frozen world of the Arctic and sub-Arctic is thawing.”
2000: “The North Pole is melting. The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has turned to water, recent visitors there reported yesterday.”
2002: “The melting of Greenland glaciers and Arctic Ocean sea ice this past summer reached levels not seen in decades, scientists reported today.”
2004: “There is an awful lot of Arctic and glacial ice melting.”
2005: “Another melancholy gathering of climate scientists presented evidence this month that the Antarctic ice shelf is melting – a prospect difficult to imagine a decade ago.”
