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TheLastV8 [soylentnews.org] writes:

Robert Zubrin, president of Mars Society has penned an extremely articulate article excoriating climate change proponents that want to prosecute scientists for their anti-catastrophic beliefs. He methodically destroys all their arguments, leaving nothing open to imagination. From the article:

"Recently, the attorneys general of a number of states have launched an effort to use the RICO anti–​organized-crime statute to prosecute opponents of climate-change alarmism. This is nothing less than an all-out attack on science."

"To attempt to prevail in a scientific dispute through the use of force is equivalent to the use of a gun to prevail in a courtroom, or, for that matter, of rape to prevail in courtship. It is nothing less than a criminal rejection of a basic principle of our civilization."

"No valid scientific theory has ever required the use of police powers to prevail. No Ptolemaist was ever burned at the stake by Copernicans, nor did the relativity theorists ever find the need to round up the hard-core Newtonians or Etherite dead-enders. Even such counterintuitive theories as quantum mechanics and the Big Bang have done just fine without the assistance of Gestapo raids directed against their detractors. In the courtroom of science, if you have the facts on your side, you don’t need a gun — and juries would be well advised to distrust the case of those parties who choose to use weapons to silence adversarial witnesses."

The aricle is long and worth reading carefully, every single word is measured in platinum, as we step into the future.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435464/climate-change-prosecution-war-science?target=author&tid=22670 [nationalreview.com]

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