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Can honest scientists be led astray? Can they be manipulated as well?
originally posted by: neo96
Suddenly there is the massive problem that supposedly needs dealt with.
With no solutions offered OTHER than running around like chicken littles.
Nonsense, this has been a growing concern for as long as I have been around.
Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
originally posted by: neo96
a reply to: SaturnFX
Nonsense, this has been a growing concern for as long as I have been around.
Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
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originally posted by: neo96
a reply to: SaturnFX
And the point is ?
We gonna go bring freedom and democracy to China and act like neocons to 'save' the planet ?
originally posted by: neo96
a reply to: SaturnFX
And the point is ?
We gonna go bring freedom and democracy to China and act like neocons to 'save' the planet ?
originally posted by: Greven
We have evidence of both. For example, here are trends from UAH