Comment Re:Last bastion (Score 1) 963
No, in science, you modify your model and conclusions based on changing evidence. The difference here is that you're holding your conclusion constant and changing the reason you claim it's true every time your reason is found to be untrue.
In science, you form a new falsifiable hypothesis after your previous one was falsified. You don't just change your answer to a binary question like "is climate change real and anthropogenic?" and never question it again. If there's an idea that you don't believe, you keep probing at it until you're satisfied. Otherwise scientific thought would be basically dead. Imagine if I said "I have a perpetual motion machine!" and you said "are you sure it's gaining energy?" and we determined that it was...and you said "well, okay, then, perpetual machine proven", without questioning if that energy is coming in from an outside source...that would certainly be unscientific. So what makes this different? That you believe it? That's no good. Science is about independent thought, not about agreeing with blueg3 all the time.
Call these people stubborn, call them consistently wrong, call them outvoted and on the fringe of modern science, call them motivated by grants from industries that want to deny this, whatever, but I don't think it's right to say they are completely unscientific as long as they are still able to form new potentially useful hypotheses. Just keep disproving the hypotheses and sooner or later they'll go away, as has been true in many scientific debates in the past.