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Comment Re:Congress, our representatives? (Score 1) 302

Agreed. This comment:

If the government were not in a position to grant special favors to companies because it is regulating everything in sight, then business would have no use buying off politicians.

cuts two ways: businesses would not need to buy off politicians because they would control us directly.

Comment Re:Which side of the bread is buttered? (Score 1) 967

Were they allowed to release the study in general or did the Koch brothers give them express permission to do so? It seems like they'd have ordered a suppression for something so counter to their interests.

Apparently the paper has not been published yet. So we'll have to see.

FTBBCA

Prof Phil Jones, the CRU scientist who came in for the most personal criticism during "Climategate", was cautious about interpreting the Berkeley results because they have not been published in a peer-reviewed journal. "I look forward to reading the finalised paper once it has been reviewed and published," he said.

Comment Re:Beside the point? (Score 1) 967

Following your metaphor, The first priority is for the pilot to safely land the plan. Meanwhile, you'd probably want every single plane of the same model to be inspected before flying.

If there is 20 years of solid evidence that your fuel is making the engine explode, you'd be pretty stupid to keep using that fuel.

Comment Re:Over-reaction (Score 1) 369

OR, if you were an academic at another institution, and you wanted to discuss something with another professor, and that other professor is sometimes outspoken, then you might think twice about what you say?

OR if you're a student of said professor, and you wanted to discuss your career in the field, would you think twice about that if that correspondance could be public?

and on, and on,

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