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Essentially if whatever you are told is alleged to be supported by 'all scientists,' you don't have to understand [the issue] anymore. You simply go back to treating it as a matter of religious belief

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[[MIT]] Climate scientist [[Richard Lindzen]] wrote:

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:Science, in the public arena, is commonly used as a source of authority with which to bludgeon political opponents and propagandize uninformed citizens. ... It is a reprehensible practice that corrodes our ability to make rational decisions. [http://www-eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen/OpEds/LindzenWSJ.pdf]

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*"Science, in the public arena, is commonly used as a source of authority with which to bludgeon political opponents and propagandize uninformed citizens. ... It is a reprehensible practice that corrodes our ability to make rational decisions." [http://www-eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen/OpEds/LindzenWSJ.pdf]

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*"Essentially if whatever you are told is alleged to be supported by 'all scientists,' you don't have to understand [the issue] anymore. You simply go back to treating it as a matter of religious belief." [http://www.cdfe.org/global_warming_religion.htm]

==External links==

*[http://www.sepp.org/Archive/NewSEPP/Consensus-Corcoran.htm Climate consensus and the end of science] - Terence Corcoran

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*[http://www.cdfe.org/global_warming_religion.htm Global Warming as a Religion]

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