Thursday, January 09, 2014

consistency, conshmistency

The strong lay believers in anthropogenic climate change consistently point to an overwhelming array of scientific support for their position. A large number of these ardent environmentalists chose to ignore overwhelming scientific evidence on other issues. Genetically modified crops have been examined over and over and have been deemed safe  by a huge majority of scientists as has "fracing" in oil and natural gas drilling. A defrocked British doctor , on the basis of eleven cases , indicted vaccination as a cause of  autism and in spite of  continued debunking by doctors and scientists a considerable number of people hew to this position and refuse to have children vaccinated.  Doesn't anybody remember diphtheria , smallpox, polio, which once were endemic. I guess one is supposed to pick and chose ,emotionally, on what to believe and what cause to espouse