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Perhaps it is comforting to believe that science is an absolute discipline: immune from fads, fanatics and frauds, untroubled by extremists, evangelists, glory-seekers and bigots. But it is not. It is as vulnerable to the vested interests and biases of its practitioners as any corporate entity or political party.
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People are indeed vulnerable to vested Interests. After all he himself is the owner of some mining companies whose profitability would be under threat by measures to reduce Global Warming:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Pli...ning_interests
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Plimer is a director of three Australian mining companies: Ivanhoe, CBH Resources and Kefi Minerals.Plimer rejects claims of a conflict between his commercial mining interests and his view that man-made climate change is a myth.Plimer has said that the proposed Australian carbon-trading scheme could decimate the Australian mining industry,and probably destroy it totally, as well as creating massive unemployment.
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Kind of rich he should accuse the majority of scientists who concur with climate change of being motivated by cash. Although not-unexpected from the Daily Mail who have a habit of negligent to mention vested interests by their expert contributors. Especially evident in MMR where their 'concerned doctors speaking out' often stood to gain financially from the scaremongering.
Although it is less convincing that the vast majority of scientists are won over by commercial gain. Many of these are academics. So why do the majority of scientists agree with Global Warming being at least made worse faster by Human interventions? (Incidentally he uses natural CO2 emissions as proof global warming is natual but obviously we still have those emissions combined with our own).
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Ain't that the truth. I'll remember to quote it again the next time we're having a Creation/evolution thread.  |
Science is a process. It is not a religion. However it is a process which seeks to understand though testing and re-testing and trying to, as best we can, prove facts about our universe. As such it's findings do have some weight. Some people seem to think it's just a point of view, a 'side', among many which is what is annoying about the Creationism 'debate'. The idea that religions belief is an equal, on Scientific terms, to evolution is wrong.