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Entry: The Right's Science Problem Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_rights_science_problem#17280 Post contents: It is one thing to disagree with a scientific hypothesis because you do not think that the evidence does not warrant it. It is another to disagree with it because it clashes with your belief system. Or because you do not like the implications in your daily life. Those are considerations that have nothing to do with the stated theory is true or false. Facts are, and you are supposed to adjust you belief system to them, not the other way around. That way likes Lysenko, who really managed to screw up Soviet agriculture. The problme with so many opponents of the global warming theory is that they protest not out of respect to the climatology science, but out of respect for their economic theory, which is irrelevant to the subject being discussed. Their muleheadednes leads them to make fun of hybrid cars, or high mileage cars, even with rising gas prices that makes those cars a great buy (same as energy efficient light bulbs - who does not want to lower his or hers electric bill?) Such attitude has little of common sense and a lot of zealotry. Sent at: 2008 07 20