The mistrust of Science

[guno]

"People are prone to resist scientific claims when they clash with intuitive beliefs. They don’t see measles or mumps around anymore. They do see children with autism. And they see a mom who says, “My child was perfectly fine until he got a vaccine and became autistic.”

Now, you can tell them that correlation is not causation. You can say that children get a vaccine every two to three months for the first couple years of their life, so the onset of any illness is bound to follow vaccination for many kids. You can say that the science shows no connection. But once an idea has got embedded and become widespread, it becomes very difficult to dig it out of people’s brains—especially when they do not trust scientific authorities. And we are experiencing a significant decline in trust in scientific authorities.


Deeply alarming trends. Despite increasing education levels, the public’s trust in the scientific community has been decreasing. This is particularly true among conservatives, even educated conservatives. In 1974, conservatives with college degrees had the highest level of trust in science and the scientific community. Today, they have the lowest."


Since the bible thumpers and uneducated seized control of the republican party and magical thinking is paramount to them and education and science is their enemy

 

[OldLady]

It's time for a new party, I keep tellin' ya.

 

[daws101]

It's time for a new party, I keep tellin' ya.

I'm always up for a party!

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

"People are prone to resist scientific claims when they clash with intuitive beliefs. They don’t see measles or mumps around anymore. They do see children with autism. And they see a mom who says, “My child was perfectly fine until he got a vaccine and became autistic.”

Now, you can tell them that correlation is not causation. You can say that children get a vaccine every two to three months for the first couple years of their life, so the onset of any illness is bound to follow vaccination for many kids. You can say that the science shows no connection. But once an idea has got embedded and become widespread, it becomes very difficult to dig it out of people’s brains—especially when they do not trust scientific authorities. And we are experiencing a significant decline in trust in scientific authorities.


Deeply alarming trends. Despite increasing education levels, the public’s trust in the scientific community has been decreasing. This is particularly true among conservatives, even educated conservatives. In 1974, conservatives with college degrees had the highest level of trust in science and the scientific community. Today, they have the lowest."


Since the bible thumpers and uneducated seized control of the republican party and magical thinking is paramount to them and education and science is their enemy

So, who is scientifically claiming that men who eat hormones and have their weenie hacked off are now women.

HINT: Starts with "D".

 

[daws101]

"People are prone to resist scientific claims when they clash with intuitive beliefs. They don’t see measles or mumps around anymore. They do see children with autism. And they see a mom who says, “My child was perfectly fine until he got a vaccine and became autistic.”

Now, you can tell them that correlation is not causation. You can say that children get a vaccine every two to three months for the first couple years of their life, so the onset of any illness is bound to follow vaccination for many kids. You can say that the science shows no connection. But once an idea has got embedded and become widespread, it becomes very difficult to dig it out of people’s brains—especially when they do not trust scientific authorities. And we are experiencing a significant decline in trust in scientific authorities.


Deeply alarming trends. Despite increasing education levels, the public’s trust in the scientific community has been decreasing. This is particularly true among conservatives, even educated conservatives. In 1974, conservatives with college degrees had the highest level of trust in science and the scientific community. Today, they have the lowest."


Since the bible thumpers and uneducated seized control of the republican party and magical thinking is paramount to them and education and science is their enemy

So, who is scientifically claiming that men who eat hormones and have their weenie hacked off are now women.

HINT: Starts with "D".

So who's having a major meltdown over it?
Hint :starts with an "R".

 

[IsaacNewton]

"People are prone to resist scientific claims when they clash with intuitive beliefs. They don’t see measles or mumps around anymore. They do see children with autism. And they see a mom who says, “My child was perfectly fine until he got a vaccine and became autistic.”

Now, you can tell them that correlation is not causation. You can say that children get a vaccine every two to three months for the first couple years of their life, so the onset of any illness is bound to follow vaccination for many kids. You can say that the science shows no connection. But once an idea has got embedded and become widespread, it becomes very difficult to dig it out of people’s brains—especially when they do not trust scientific authorities. And we are experiencing a significant decline in trust in scientific authorities.


Deeply alarming trends. Despite increasing education levels, the public’s trust in the scientific community has been decreasing. This is particularly true among conservatives, even educated conservatives. In 1974, conservatives with college degrees had the highest level of trust in science and the scientific community. Today, they have the lowest."


Since the bible thumpers and uneducated seized control of the republican party and magical thinking is paramount to them and education and science is their enemy

The effect of conservative media. It is designed to appeal to the ignorant and to dumb them down even farther. It instills in them the thought "well everyone just has an 'opinion' and your opinion is just as valid as anyone else's' ". It is a sly lie that 'feels good' to these people. It makes them feel smart even when they have virtually no facts to support what they believe.

Unfortunately the Darwin rule will have to take care of these people who don't want to vaccinate their children because their minds are so easily manipulated. It is a similar strain as the utlra religious who don't ever take their children to see a doctor because if the child dies they believe 'it's god's will'. Whackjobbery is alive and well.

 

[couch protester]

"People are prone to resist scientific claims when they clash with intuitive beliefs. They don’t see measles or mumps around anymore. They do see children with autism. And they see a mom who says, “My child was perfectly fine until he got a vaccine and became autistic.”

Now, you can tell them that correlation is not causation. You can say that children get a vaccine every two to three months for the first couple years of their life, so the onset of any illness is bound to follow vaccination for many kids. You can say that the science shows no connection. But once an idea has got embedded and become widespread, it becomes very difficult to dig it out of people’s brains—especially when they do not trust scientific authorities. And we are experiencing a significant decline in trust in scientific authorities.


Deeply alarming trends. Despite increasing education levels, the public’s trust in the scientific community has been decreasing. This is particularly true among conservatives, even educated conservatives. In 1974, conservatives with college degrees had the highest level of trust in science and the scientific community. Today, they have the lowest."


Since the bible thumpers and uneducated seized control of the republican party and magical thinking is paramount to them and education and science is their enemy

The effect of conservative media. It is designed to appeal to the ignorant and to dumb them down even farther. It instills in them the thought "well everyone just has an 'opinion' and your opinion is just as valid as anyone else's' ". It is a sly lie that 'feels good' to these people. It makes them feel smart even when they have virtually no facts to support what they believe.

Unfortunately the Darwin rule will have to take care of these people who don't want to vaccinate their children because their minds are so easily manipulated. It is a similar strain as the utlra religious who don't ever take their children to see a doctor because if the child dies they believe 'it's god's will'. Whackjobbery is alive and well.

Morons with IQ of 50-60 are mostly uneducated welfare hand outs voting Obama and democrat which includes ghettos, trailer park, illegals, baby mamas, thugs, fall under uneducated.

 

[westwall]

"People are prone to resist scientific claims when they clash with intuitive beliefs. They don’t see measles or mumps around anymore. They do see children with autism. And they see a mom who says, “My child was perfectly fine until he got a vaccine and became autistic.”

Now, you can tell them that correlation is not causation. You can say that children get a vaccine every two to three months for the first couple years of their life, so the onset of any illness is bound to follow vaccination for many kids. You can say that the science shows no connection. But once an idea has got embedded and become widespread, it becomes very difficult to dig it out of people’s brains—especially when they do not trust scientific authorities. And we are experiencing a significant decline in trust in scientific authorities.


Deeply alarming trends. Despite increasing education levels, the public’s trust in the scientific community has been decreasing. This is particularly true among conservatives, even educated conservatives. In 1974, conservatives with college degrees had the highest level of trust in science and the scientific community. Today, they have the lowest."


Since the bible thumpers and uneducated seized control of the republican party and magical thinking is paramount to them and education and science is their enemy

It's not the bible thumpers, it is the clear violation of scientific protocols and the scientific method in an effort to push the political agenda of man made global warming and the desire on the part of the progressives pushing that, that has led to the widespread distrust of science. This is a clear case of science perverting itself for a political agenda. Thus it is no longer trustworthy.

If you want to blame somebody. Blame yourself. You're one of the assholes responsible.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

"People are prone to resist scientific claims when they clash with intuitive beliefs. They don’t see measles or mumps around anymore. They do see children with autism. And they see a mom who says, “My child was perfectly fine until he got a vaccine and became autistic.”

Now, you can tell them that correlation is not causation. You can say that children get a vaccine every two to three months for the first couple years of their life, so the onset of any illness is bound to follow vaccination for many kids. You can say that the science shows no connection. But once an idea has got embedded and become widespread, it becomes very difficult to dig it out of people’s brains—especially when they do not trust scientific authorities. And we are experiencing a significant decline in trust in scientific authorities.


Deeply alarming trends. Despite increasing education levels, the public’s trust in the scientific community has been decreasing. This is particularly true among conservatives, even educated conservatives. In 1974, conservatives with college degrees had the highest level of trust in science and the scientific community. Today, they have the lowest."


Since the bible thumpers and uneducated seized control of the republican party and magical thinking is paramount to them and education and science is their enemy

So, who is scientifically claiming that men who eat hormones and have their weenie hacked off are now women.

HINT: Starts with "D".

So who's having a major meltdown over it?
Hint :starts with an "R".

The point is, it's not science. It's cultural manipulation.

 

[daws101]

"People are prone to resist scientific claims when they clash with intuitive beliefs. They don’t see measles or mumps around anymore. They do see children with autism. And they see a mom who says, “My child was perfectly fine until he got a vaccine and became autistic.”

Now, you can tell them that correlation is not causation. You can say that children get a vaccine every two to three months for the first couple years of their life, so the onset of any illness is bound to follow vaccination for many kids. You can say that the science shows no connection. But once an idea has got embedded and become widespread, it becomes very difficult to dig it out of people’s brains—especially when they do not trust scientific authorities. And we are experiencing a significant decline in trust in scientific authorities.


Deeply alarming trends. Despite increasing education levels, the public’s trust in the scientific community has been decreasing. This is particularly true among conservatives, even educated conservatives. In 1974, conservatives with college degrees had the highest level of trust in science and the scientific community. Today, they have the lowest."


Since the bible thumpers and uneducated seized control of the republican party and magical thinking is paramount to them and education and science is their enemy

So, who is scientifically claiming that men who eat hormones and have their weenie hacked off are now women.

HINT: Starts with "D".

So who's having a major meltdown over it?
Hint :starts with an "R".

The point is, it's not science. It's cultural manipulation.

The hissy fit by the right certainly is!

 

[Ozone]

"People are prone to resist scientific claims when they clash with intuitive beliefs. They don’t see measles or mumps around anymore. They do see children with autism. And they see a mom who says, “My child was perfectly fine until he got a vaccine and became autistic.”

Now, you can tell them that correlation is not causation. You can say that children get a vaccine every two to three months for the first couple years of their life, so the onset of any illness is bound to follow vaccination for many kids. You can say that the science shows no connection. But once an idea has got embedded and become widespread, it becomes very difficult to dig it out of people’s brains—especially when they do not trust scientific authorities. And we are experiencing a significant decline in trust in scientific authorities.


Deeply alarming trends. Despite increasing education levels, the public’s trust in the scientific community has been decreasing. This is particularly true among conservatives, even educated conservatives. In 1974, conservatives with college degrees had the highest level of trust in science and the scientific community. Today, they have the lowest."


Since the bible thumpers and uneducated seized control of the republican party and magical thinking is paramount to them and education and science is their enemy

it's just as important to understand that other people's brains don't belong to you and that it's none of your business to go about trying to dig anything out of them, too.

 

[daws101]

"People are prone to resist scientific claims when they clash with intuitive beliefs. They don’t see measles or mumps around anymore. They do see children with autism. And they see a mom who says, “My child was perfectly fine until he got a vaccine and became autistic.”

Now, you can tell them that correlation is not causation. You can say that children get a vaccine every two to three months for the first couple years of their life, so the onset of any illness is bound to follow vaccination for many kids. You can say that the science shows no connection. But once an idea has got embedded and become widespread, it becomes very difficult to dig it out of people’s brains—especially when they do not trust scientific authorities. And we are experiencing a significant decline in trust in scientific authorities.


Deeply alarming trends. Despite increasing education levels, the public’s trust in the scientific community has been decreasing. This is particularly true among conservatives, even educated conservatives. In 1974, conservatives with college degrees had the highest level of trust in science and the scientific community. Today, they have the lowest."


Since the bible thumpers and uneducated seized control of the republican party and magical thinking is paramount to them and education and science is their enemy

it's just as important to understand that other people's brains don't belong to you and that it's none of your business to go about trying to dig anything out of them, too.

Especially for free.
Most of the time the dig comes up empty.

 

[Old Rocks]

"People are prone to resist scientific claims when they clash with intuitive beliefs. They don’t see measles or mumps around anymore. They do see children with autism. And they see a mom who says, “My child was perfectly fine until he got a vaccine and became autistic.”

Now, you can tell them that correlation is not causation. You can say that children get a vaccine every two to three months for the first couple years of their life, so the onset of any illness is bound to follow vaccination for many kids. You can say that the science shows no connection. But once an idea has got embedded and become widespread, it becomes very difficult to dig it out of people’s brains—especially when they do not trust scientific authorities. And we are experiencing a significant decline in trust in scientific authorities.


Deeply alarming trends. Despite increasing education levels, the public’s trust in the scientific community has been decreasing. This is particularly true among conservatives, even educated conservatives. In 1974, conservatives with college degrees had the highest level of trust in science and the scientific community. Today, they have the lowest."


Since the bible thumpers and uneducated seized control of the republican party and magical thinking is paramount to them and education and science is their enemy

The effect of conservative media. It is designed to appeal to the ignorant and to dumb them down even farther. It instills in them the thought "well everyone just has an 'opinion' and your opinion is just as valid as anyone else's' ". It is a sly lie that 'feels good' to these people. It makes them feel smart even when they have virtually no facts to support what they believe.

Unfortunately the Darwin rule will have to take care of these people who don't want to vaccinate their children because their minds are so easily manipulated. It is a similar strain as the utlra religious who don't ever take their children to see a doctor because if the child dies they believe 'it's god's will'. Whackjobbery is alive and well.

Morons with IQ of 50-60 are mostly uneducated welfare hand outs voting Obama and democrat which includes ghettos, trailer park, illegals, baby mamas, thugs, fall under uneducated.

And which states are the biggest welfare states? Easy to find them, most are red in election maps. Kind of blows your nonsense right out of the water.

 

[Old Rocks]

"People are prone to resist scientific claims when they clash with intuitive beliefs. They don’t see measles or mumps around anymore. They do see children with autism. And they see a mom who says, “My child was perfectly fine until he got a vaccine and became autistic.”

Now, you can tell them that correlation is not causation. You can say that children get a vaccine every two to three months for the first couple years of their life, so the onset of any illness is bound to follow vaccination for many kids. You can say that the science shows no connection. But once an idea has got embedded and become widespread, it becomes very difficult to dig it out of people’s brains—especially when they do not trust scientific authorities. And we are experiencing a significant decline in trust in scientific authorities.


Deeply alarming trends. Despite increasing education levels, the public’s trust in the scientific community has been decreasing. This is particularly true among conservatives, even educated conservatives. In 1974, conservatives with college degrees had the highest level of trust in science and the scientific community. Today, they have the lowest."


Since the bible thumpers and uneducated seized control of the republican party and magical thinking is paramount to them and education and science is their enemy

It's not the bible thumpers, it is the clear violation of scientific protocols and the scientific method in an effort to push the political agenda of man made global warming and the desire on the part of the progressives pushing that, that has led to the widespread distrust of science. This is a clear case of science perverting itself for a political agenda. Thus it is no longer trustworthy.

If you want to blame somebody. Blame yourself. You're one of the assholes responsible.

What a fucking load. Most of the working scientists in the world state that AGW is real, and a clear and present danger. Many pretenders state otherwise, but reveal themselves for the frauds they are in their posts. We surely have many of your peers here, like Billy Bob and Dexter.

 

[skookerasbil]

"People are prone to resist scientific claims when they clash with intuitive beliefs. They don’t see measles or mumps around anymore. They do see children with autism. And they see a mom who says, “My child was perfectly fine until he got a vaccine and became autistic.”

Now, you can tell them that correlation is not causation. You can say that children get a vaccine every two to three months for the first couple years of their life, so the onset of any illness is bound to follow vaccination for many kids. You can say that the science shows no connection. But once an idea has got embedded and become widespread, it becomes very difficult to dig it out of people’s brains—especially when they do not trust scientific authorities. And we are experiencing a significant decline in trust in scientific authorities.


Deeply alarming trends. Despite increasing education levels, the public’s trust in the scientific community has been decreasing. This is particularly true among conservatives, even educated conservatives. In 1974, conservatives with college degrees had the highest level of trust in science and the scientific community. Today, they have the lowest."


Since the bible thumpers and uneducated seized control of the republican party and magical thinking is paramount to them and education and science is their enemy

It's not the bible thumpers, it is the clear violation of scientific protocols and the scientific method in an effort to push the political agenda of man made global warming and the desire on the part of the progressives pushing that, that has led to the widespread distrust of science. This is a clear case of science perverting itself for a political agenda. Thus it is no longer trustworthy.

If you want to blame somebody. Blame yourself. You're one of the assholes responsible.

What a fucking load. Most of the working scientists in the world state that AGW is real, and a clear and present danger. Many pretenders state otherwise, but reveal themselves for the frauds they are in their posts. We surely have many of your peers here, like Billy Bob and Dexter.

LOL......makey-uppey conjecture. Most scientists by far reject the "man made" part of global warming.........PHD level and Masters. To you they are fake scientists. But not to the rest of the world. Nobody trusts climate sciece in 2016 except the religion or the uninformed.

 

[westwall]

"People are prone to resist scientific claims when they clash with intuitive beliefs. They don’t see measles or mumps around anymore. They do see children with autism. And they see a mom who says, “My child was perfectly fine until he got a vaccine and became autistic.”

Now, you can tell them that correlation is not causation. You can say that children get a vaccine every two to three months for the first couple years of their life, so the onset of any illness is bound to follow vaccination for many kids. You can say that the science shows no connection. But once an idea has got embedded and become widespread, it becomes very difficult to dig it out of people’s brains—especially when they do not trust scientific authorities. And we are experiencing a significant decline in trust in scientific authorities.


Deeply alarming trends. Despite increasing education levels, the public’s trust in the scientific community has been decreasing. This is particularly true among conservatives, even educated conservatives. In 1974, conservatives with college degrees had the highest level of trust in science and the scientific community. Today, they have the lowest."


Since the bible thumpers and uneducated seized control of the republican party and magical thinking is paramount to them and education and science is their enemy

It's not the bible thumpers, it is the clear violation of scientific protocols and the scientific method in an effort to push the political agenda of man made global warming and the desire on the part of the progressives pushing that, that has led to the widespread distrust of science. This is a clear case of science perverting itself for a political agenda. Thus it is no longer trustworthy.

If you want to blame somebody. Blame yourself. You're one of the assholes responsible.

What a fucking load. Most of the working scientists in the world state that AGW is real, and a clear and present danger. Many pretenders state otherwise, but reveal themselves for the frauds they are in their posts. We surely have many of your peers here, like Billy Bob and Dexter.

Bullcrap. Climatologists, but not the majority of scientists. That's nothing more than a bald faced lie.

 

[Old Rocks]

Human-induced climate change requires urgent action.

Humanity is the major influence on the global climate change observed over the past 50 years. Rapid societal responses can significantly lessen negative outcomes.

“Human activities are changing Earth’s climate. At the global level, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases have increased sharply since the Industrial Revolution. Fossil fuel burning dominates this increase. Human-caused increases in greenhouse gases are responsible for most of the observed global average surface warming of roughly 0.8°C (1.5°F) over the past 140 years. Because natural processes cannot quickly remove some of these gases (notably carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere, our past, present, and future emissions will influence the climate system for millennia.

Extensive, independent observations confirm the reality of global warming. These observations show large-scale increases in air and sea temperatures, sea level, and atmospheric water vapor; they document decreases in the extent of mountain glaciers, snow cover, permafrost, and Arctic sea ice. These changes are broadly consistent with long-understood physics and predictions of how the climate system is expected to respond to human-caused increases in greenhouse gases. The changes are inconsistent with explanations of climate change that rely on known natural influences.

AGU Statement on Climate Change: Update | Environment

The American Geophysical Union's statement on climate change.

 

[Old Rocks]

Given the knowledge gained from paleoclimatic studies, several explanations for the ongoing warming trend can be eliminated. Changes in Earth’s tectonism and its orbit are far too slow to have played a significant role in the observed rate of temperature increase over the last 150 years. At the other extreme, large volcanic eruptions have cooled global climate for a year or two, and El Niño episodes have warmed it for about a year, but neither factor dominates longer-term trends. Extensive efforts to find any other natural explanation for the recent trend have similarly failed.

As a result, greenhouse-gas concentrations and solar output are the principal remaining factors that could have changed rapidly enough and lasted long enough to explain the observed changes in global temperature. The 5th IPCC report (2013) concluded that solar irradiance changes contributed only a few percent to changes in radiative forcing of the atmosphere over the past century. Throughout the era of satellite observation, during periods of strong warming, the data show little evidence of increased solar influence (Foster and Rahmstorf, 2011; Lean and Rind, 2008).

Greenhouse gas concentrations remain the major explanation for the warming. Observations and climate model assessments of the natural and anthropogenic factors responsible for this warming conclude that rising anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases have been an increasingly important contributor since the mid-1800s and the major factor since the mid-1900s (Meehl et al., 2004). The CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is now ~40% higher than peak levels measured in ice cores spanning 800,000 years of age, and the methane concentration is 1.5 times higher (IPCC, 2013). The measured increases in greenhouse gases are more than enough to explain the observed global temperature increase at Earth’s surface. In fact, considered in isolation, the greenhouse gas increases during the last 150 years would have caused a warming larger than that actually measured, but mechanisms that limit increases in near-surface air temperatures from aerosols, ocean heat storage, and possibly clouds have offset part of the warming. In addition, because the oceans take decades to centuries to respond fully to climatic forcing, the climate system has yet to register the full effect of recent greenhouse gas increases.

The Geological Society of America - Position Statement on Climate Change

The position of the Geological Society of America.

 

[Old Rocks]

National Policy
07.1 CLIMATE CHANGE
(Adopted by Council on November 18, 2007)

Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth's climate. Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide as well as methane, nitrous oxide and other gases. They are emitted from fossil fuel combustion and a range of industrial and agricultural processes.

The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring.

If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth’s physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now.

Because the complexity of the climate makes accurate prediction difficult, the APS urges an enhanced effort to understand the effects of human activity on the Earth’s climate, and to provide the technological options for meeting the climate challenge in the near and longer terms. The APS also urges governments, universities, national laboratories and its membership to support policies and actions that will reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.

Climate Change

The American Physical Society

 

[Old Rocks]

WASHINGTON, June 24, 2015 — The president of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Diane Grob Schmidt, Ph.D., responds to Pope Francis’ recent encyclical below:

“Pope Francis’ encyclical letter — Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home — represents an important and eloquent statement on the need to address global challenges affecting everyone and everything on planet Earth, including climate change.

“Addressing climate change is one of the most significant moral, ethical and technical challenges of our generation — it affects food production, water quality and supplies, sustainability, natural resources and biodiversity. As a world leader on matters of religion and morality, the Pope’s thoughts and opinions are an important contribution to an ongoing global dialogue about how we can address climate issues effectively and with fairness to all across countries, continents, socio-economic classes and generations.

“The Pope’s letter also reflects the thoughts of a scientist and chemist, a man who was educated and employed in the chemical sciences before joining the priesthood. This encyclical adds to the important work of chemistry professionals around the world to educate all people about the scientific aspects of this daunting global challenge, as well as to recommend actions that reverse dangerous trends, mitigate damage to our environment and help us all adapt to a changing planet.”

Statement of Diane Grob Schmidt, Ph.D., president, American Chemical Society, upon the publication of the ‘Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home’ by Pope Francis

ACS Climate Science Toolkit