Research scientists have to fight for funding like everyone else in academia. It's a sad truth they must relate all research to global climate change to get any funding anymore. A gentleman in the BBC film 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' said something like this: If I wanted to do research on the nut-gathering habits of squirrels in Sussex, I wouldn't get any funding to do the research unless I added the phrase 'as it relates to global climate change.'

Besides, global warming is not something scientists can have a consensus about. That heavy things fall to the ground is something scientists can have consensus about.

Mormons would claim that Protestant/Catholic/Greek Orthodox Christianity is a cult of 1st century Christianity, because they such groups have departed significantly from their parent religion. As stated, Christians can be said to be a cult of the Jewish religion. And Protestants would be a cult with respect to Catholics. It seems to me that any belief which spawns from another becomes a "cult" of that religion. But what I don't understand, is why the need to point it out in the context of Mormonism?

When the founding fathers were alive and running the country, there were no policial parties at first. They all had similar enough beliefs that they didn't need different parties. It could be argued that that was the same thing as single party rule. And the checks and balances (and the country) survived just fine.