Fox News ’ “ Special Report ” took a look at the latest mood - alteration studies . And even by the internet ’s standards , this segment of ill-tempered - honest-to-goodness - men - punditry was profoundly bizarre , everlasting with comparison to rain dancing and Old Testament floods .
The report card open with George Will griping about the “ 97 % consensus ” figure . ( “ Who counted them ? Who measured ? Where did that physical body come from ? ” )
George , like me , is a Cubs sports fan . As such , he has obviously been traumatized by statistic , so I will forgive him .
Besides , the section really belonged to Charles Krauthammer , who began with this reflection :
“ 99 % of physicists were convinced that space and meter are limit , until Einstein working at a letters patent office wrote a report in which he showed them they are not . I ’m not impress by number . I ’m not impressed by consensus . ”
You have to look up to the hubris of someone who at the same time cites Einstein and then declares his disdain for numbers .
Next , Krauthammer argues that the scientific method acting is actually a case of bargaining process . Also , he reveals that he still does not read the difference between weather and clime :
“ These are things that hoi polloi negociate … the room you would negociate a bill , because the scientific discipline is unstable [ and ] because in the lawsuit of climate , the models are changeable … .The estimate that we who have bother bode what ’s die to happen on Saturday in the clime could make to be presage what ’s going to pass off in 30 - 40 years is ridiculous . ”
And , he brings it home with this observation :
“ What we ’re ultimately talk about here is human sin , through the yield of carbon copy . It ’s the old superstition around . It was in the Old Testament . It ’s in the rain dance of the Native Americans . If you sin , the skies will not cooperate . This is quite superstitious and I ’m waiting for science that does n’t announce itself definitive but is otherwise convincing . ”
Noah is still in theaters . Perhaps this was some form of stealth selling .
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