At some level, we as scientists trust one another to not fudge things

Well, we have evidence of fudging the data. Confessions of fudging are in the code! From a report by the Science & Public Policy Institute: Climategate: Caught Green-Handed! (PDF) See Page 8, Example 2.

and the peer review process should take care of most of that.

Peer reviewing does nothing for integrity when you ignore the peer reviewers' comments, or you get to choose the reviewers!

Some people want to read only confirmation of their existing opinions. Some other people want their opinions challenged. In both cases, they'll find more material they like online than they ever would in a newspaper.

No, you're confounding skills with ethics here. A hacker can both be skilled and be a blackhat; by the same token, a driver can be skilled and be an asshat. (Of course there is not necessarily always a positive correlation - cf. script-kiddies)

Ubuntu still needs to change a lot (scrap Upstart/clone FreeBSD init, get rid of DKMS, ideally get rid of crapt-get and clone ports, revert to OSS for sound, get rid of the insane scenario where GNOME is irremovably fused with virtually the entire rest of the system)

Or you could just run FreeBSD, rather than trying to turn Ubuntu into it...

No, it's just PRE-PAID. And overpaid. And if you didn't pay for your education, that means that the government robbed someone else to pay for it. It's a totally immoral system. How do you socialists sleep at night?

and Jesus Christ.

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Refutation:

The "crime" that was posted on the cross above Yeshua's (Jesus') head was "King of the Jews." That's not a crime. The religious leaders wanted Him dead because they were jealous of Him (His independent, authoritative teaching and wild popularity undermined their positions) and He did not overthrow the yoke of Roman imperialism like they thought a real messiah should've done. He was not a criminal.

Moreover, the innocence of the Messiah is a requirement for being the "Passover Lamb," as Believers call Him. Just as the lamb for the Passover sacrifice had to be examined for four days (according to Torah - Leviticus 23), so was Yeshua examined by the authorities for four days, after which, having been found unblemished/innocent, He was slaughtered on the eve of Passover.

To "young"-earth creationists, what we see here is certainly not "impossible," or improbable. In fact, it is to be expected!

That planet is "impossible" because their "science" is impossible.

Orbital dynamics "settled" science for 400 years? The age of the universe (ballpark figure) had been settled for a lot longer than that until modern, naturalist scientists decided to unsettle it. Look who's doing the backpedaling now... (Not saying they'll return to Genesis for answers; they'll just devise even more wildly contorted naturalistic hypotheses to explain why reality discombobulates their "settled" teachings.)

l've so often but rarely see any proof of such cuts in funding.. would YOU please cite what school and town you're referring to?
Specific budgets pre and post cuts to prove your point. Otherwise. retract your assertion,