Mr. Apple meet Mr. Orange...what??? You two cannot compare each other? Imagine that.

I agree. "Science" isn't one giant blob of the black arts. And it isn't a black art. Many believe so but for different reasons.

As someone above mentioned, there are no more scientists working than ever before. Any pop. of humans will have its proportion of hucksters. Given the 24 hour news cycle, new organizations willing to generate news, everyone and their brother's dog with a web site thinking their opinion is somehow information, etc., and it would appear from the outside that science is being drowned by bad scientists. The left wing uses science for political ends, so does the right wing. Neither have honorable intentions or the backgrounds necessary to work in science...but listen to them, they claim their opinion matters.

Ever look at the trade surplus China has with the U.S? Your flip comment of "How dare they exploit us back!" has no relevance.

If you are going to lapse into Esperanto, just stop right there, I can only puke so much after lunch.

Hmm...when I hear the William Tell Overture decoded from a star's signal in stunning surround sound, then I'll believe in aliens. Until then, it is just the Greek guy with the electric hair peeing in the wind again.

Well, I know this sounds weird, but during a conflict the U.S. Military and Russia's and China's are not going to be relying on commercial weather satellites. Something about they possibly being pwned by the enemy. Militaries worry about these sorts of things, clearly you have never been in one.

Yeah, yer right, why would the Air Force and Navy need weather satellites.

Hmmm...so those 50,000 people marching through Moscow's government district in memory of the pol, and braving Putin's secret police and other semi-evolved Simians, are doing what, exactly? Going to a picnic?

Stop watching TV, it is bad for you.

In an earlier era, Yul Brenner had a short video about not smoking and directed it be published after cigarettes killed him.

It isn't that they realize they cannot do that, it is that they are still looking for a way to get back to doing that.

Hmmm...hey you are right, there are still a very tiny minority of scientists who think smoking is good for you. So the science isn't settled, we need 100% toeing to the party line before any public policy can be made.

Yeah, and one side in Europe isn't running around telling everyone they are not scientists but act like ones in front of the camera telling us that man made global warming doesn't exist and if it does, we'll all love the extra warmth.

Gee, this is fun, two can play this game.

Yes, and the free market whackjobs have been telling us for years to let the market rule the green space so that it can investments are made properly. Now that it might actually happen, you are complaining someone might make money off it. Make up your frikken mind.

It's even worse, they've exported the flatness to Macs and Yosemite. I think it is a new venereal disease.