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by James Lewis –<\/p>\n by James Lewis –<\/p>\n
The news leaked out a while ago that Al Gore scored a D in natural science at Harvard<\/a>.\u00a0 That would be the science introduction for Other Majors, not difficult chemistry or calculus. \u00a0So Nobel Laureate Al Gore got a D in Science for Dummies.<\/p>\n But don’t worry.\u00a0 Anybody can blow a college course and still bounce back.\u00a0 A lot of us get it wrong the first time.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Al Gore didn’t fix his failure.\u00a0 He made it much worse by peddling monstrous pseudo-science and getting even richer from it. \u00a0As well as repulsively fat — a walking metaphor for his politics.<\/p>\n The more I think about it, the more it looks like global warming is a deliberate attack by the postmodern (anti-science) left on science.\u00a0 Global Frauding attacks all the core scientific values — of truth-telling, empirical discipline, and skepticism. \u00a0Our bulging Goracle gets a lifetime grade of F for setting real science back by decades. <\/p>\n My guess is that during the Clinton years, Al Gore planted his ideological allies in NASA and NOAA.\u00a0 It could have been done through his campaign to Make Government More Efficient. \u00a0After all, he was saving the planet. Gore deserved his Nobel Prize just as much as Obama did for winning while black.<\/p>\n Phony science has a long and terrifying history on the left.\u00a0 Barack Obama was also officially credited by his Harvard Law professor Larry Tribe for inventing the Einstein Theory of the U.S. Constitution. \u00a0Really. \u00a0You can look it up.<\/a> This is so bizarre it isn’t even funny.<\/p>\n Nothing is as toxic as a really bad idea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Nothing is as toxic as a really bad idea. \u00a0Hundreds of millions of dollars are still being spent in “scientific” pursuit of disaster scenarios about the earth, fiddling with infinitely variable computer models.\u00a0 This isn’t science; the burden of proof has flipped to the skeptics, which does not happen in real science. \u00a0Albert Einstein had to predict observable outcomes before his ideas were accepted. \u00a0Watson and Crick had to prove the helical structure of DNA before anybody took them seriously.\u00a0 But in Global Frauding it’s the skeptics who are supposed to prove that the latest computer model is not<\/em> true. \u00a0If they manage that, the crooks just make up a new computer model. \u00a0It’s a sort of card sharper trick. \u00a0A con artist can always move faster than the suckers.<\/p>\n No real scientist makes a deal with Al Gore and the New York Times to get rich by peddling end-of-the-world stories. \u00a0No scientist is then allowed to call those planted lies “scientific truths” until somebody can prove they’re wrong. \u00a0If science worked like that, Galileo would still be a pariah and the Vatican would be telling us about Ptolemaic astronomy.\u00a0 In real science the burden of proof is on the proposer.\u00a0 There are good reasons for that standard.<\/p>\n In real science the burden of proof is on the proposer. There are good reasons for that standard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Three decades ago, MIT Professor Edward Lorenz<\/a> became famous for his discovery of “chaotic dynamics” in weather data. \u00a0Scientific theorists are still building on that breakthrough. \u00a0Complex systems like the earth’s atmosphere have inherent unpredictability. \u00a0They are not like Newton’s theory of the solar system, which allows for precise predictions. \u00a0The solar system is simple because everything rotates around the biggest center of gravity, the sun. \u00a0Strip out the sun, and all the planets would dance around each other like a chaotic system.<\/p>\n As aeronautics engineer Burt Rutan has pointed out, so-called “climate modeling” is a computer game with too many unknowns<\/a>.\u00a0 Real scientists keep discovering unexpected climate factors; but if you don’t even know your biggest variables, how can you build a model at all?\u00a0 It’s playing Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark.<\/p>\n Global warming racketeers end up doing science by press release.\u00a0 Their models are rigged, and any time they turn out wrong, they change the model.\u00a0 Then they send out more press releases to equally corrupt jourNOlists, who phone in more scary headlines to the New York Times. \u00a0Millions of suckered voters end up believing that the sky is falling, and they vote for socialist politicians like Obama to Save the Planet.\u00a0 Obama’s election would “stop the rising of the seas<\/a>.”<\/p>\n The super-corrupt left keeps funneling billions in taxpayer dollars to the modeling racketeers who crank out more press releases for even scarier headlines.\u00a0 Human gullibility is the only known perpetual motion machine in existence.\u00a0 It’s what liberals are always looking for: an infinitely renewable source of energy.<\/p>\n Global Frauding works like a huge criminal racket, and it should be subject to criminal prosecution, like Bernie Madoff. \u00a0No wonder George Soros keeps funding the left out of the goodness of his heart. \u00a0For him it has to be a big profit center. \u00a0According to Center for Media Research, Soros has spent 48 million dollars<\/a> funding media.\u00a0 Similar amounts of Soros money are funding all the usual fronts for the radical left, from Moveon.org to The Nation.\u00a0 This is going on while the major media like the New York Times are staggering toward bankruptcy.\u00a0 Soros and friends are buying influence on a huge scale.<\/p>\n Wrong ideas are common among honest scientists, but it takes a very nasty mind to peddle science fraud on purpose.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n For a hedge fund manipulator, that means immense clout to make and break news stories.\u00a0 It’s a dirt-cheap investment for huge potential returns. \u00a0Is Soros using his tame regiments of lefties to make more money?\u00a0 Do bunny rabbits make babies in the woods?<\/p>\n Bad ideas are toxic. \u00a0It took decades for 19th<\/sup>-century doctors to start washing their hands, because they couldn’t believe that microscopic germs might be passing on disease. \u00a0It was normal for women to die in childbirth. \u00a0It had been that way for centuries. \u00a0Washing your hands with soap and boiled water was so laughable it wasn’t worth trying. \u00a0Those doctors might have had humane intentions, but they were fixated on false ideas. \u00a0Any half-decent scientist knows dozens of cases like that.<\/p>\n Arthur C. Clarke pointed out that major scientific advances are often disputed by world-famous scientists just a few years before they are proven to be right.\u00a0 Wrong ideas are common among honest scientists, but it takes a very nasty mind to peddle science fraud on purpose.<\/p>\n Global Frauding is an assault by the postmodern left on modern science, one of the crown jewels of Western civilization.\u00a0 The po-mo left attacks all Western values — which is why our museums are proud to feature works of “art” like Piss Christ<\/a>.<\/p>\n Most of all, the postmodern left has assaulted the very concept of truth, the foremost value in science.\u00a0 Without honest science we would not have useful technology, and without 200 years of accumulated technology our lives would still be nasty, brutish, and short.<\/p>\n Scientists are not immune to greed and corruption.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Global Frauding isn’t science; it belongs in the long history of human folly and delusion.\u00a0 The Great South Sea Bubble, Florida swampland, Bernie Madoff, animal magnetism, global warming.\u00a0 They’re all popular delusions stoked by greedy demagogues.<\/p>\n Scientists are not immune to greed and corruption.<\/p>\n The prequel to Global Frauding was yet another gift from the delusional left: Jozef Stalin’s phony genetics. \u00a0Led by science fraud Trofim Lysenko<\/a>, Uncle Joe ordered millions of peasants to force<\/em> potatoes to get bigger.\u00a0 Once a generation of potatoes was forced to be bigger, the mad notion was that the next<\/em> generation of potatoes would inherit the genes for bigness.\u00a0 It was forcible labor for plants, a green version of the Siberian labor camps.<\/p>\n The Soviet Union lost the Cold War because it became an ant heap of lies. \u00a0Everybody had to lie to survive, and the ruling class never knew who was telling the truth. \u00a0Ever try to run a lemonade stand that way? \u00a0How about an auto factory?<\/p>\n Lenin and Stalin (and Mao and all the rest) tried the same “Great Leap Forward” fantasy on human beings. \u00a0Early on, the “New Soviet Man” program tried Pavlovian conditioning to transform millions of ordinary people into Heroes of Soviet Labor. \u00a0And to their everlasting shame, the Western left celebrated those miraculous achievements.<\/p>\n The left is still delusional. \u00a0Satellite photos just revealed the size of North Korean concentration camps, estimated at 200,000 prisoners. \u00a0Even NPR says they are set up to work prisoners to death<\/a>. \u00a0So how long does it take NPR to figure out that they’ve been on the wrong side for all these years?<\/p>\n Obama’s greatest intellectual flaw is his failure to understand that the radical left always leads to the abuse of force.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Obama’s greatest intellectual flaw is his failure to understand that the radical left always leads to the abuse of force.\u00a0 In the process of ratcheting up statist control, human beings will start to rebel.\u00a0 The left keeps grasping for more and more power, and the whole story of 100 million<\/a> innocent victims of Marxism has nothing to do with them.<\/p>\n And yet, the evidence is there, right in front of their eyes.\u00a0 This is not irrelevant to science, because all good science begins and ends with the truth.\u00a0 That’s the whole point.\u00a0 Those who cannot face the plain truth of their own historic criminality also want to torpedo honest science.\u00a0 Facing the truth is the last thing the left wants to do.\u00a0 It would crumble of its own inner contradictions, like the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n Marxism itself was supposed to be “scientific.”\u00a0 But all of its predictions turned out wrong. \u00a0Normal people might learn from that experience, but the left never learns.\u00a0 Today, Marxism is again a slyly celebrated subject on college campuses.\u00a0 It makes kids and professors feel grandiose and historic.<\/p>\n Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and Benjamin Rush were world-class scientific minds.\u00a0 Franklin made important strides in the study of electricity.\u00a0 Benjamin Rush was a pioneer in scientific medicine. \u00a0Jefferson was an all-round innovator and inventor.\u00a0 Can any politician today stand up in that company? \u00a0The United States has become the world superpower, but the quality of our leaders hasn’t kept up.<\/p>\n Marxism itself was supposed to be “scientific.” But all of its predictions turned out wrong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Obama’s attempt to revive Keynesian economics is another case of the same intellectual blind spots.\u00a0 Keynes himself concluded that massive deficit spending failed to cure the Great Depression<\/a>.\u00a0 It made the hunger and poverty last longer.<\/p>\n On the best evidence we have, socialism failed in the post-colonial world, which is why Russia, China, and India are now following some version of capitalism.\u00a0 Obama’s Dreams from My Father <\/em>is therefore a cruel charade.\u00a0 Obama Sr. got things seriously wrong in Kenya, and denying that plain fact can lead only to more failures.<\/p>\n In ordinary science any remaining debates would be based on those facts.\u00a0 It’s only in pseudo-science that you keep repeating a terrible idea over and over, in the face of the evidence.<\/p>\n The goal of science is to discover truth and to get rid of bad ideas.\u00a0 From that point of view, global warming is on par with the bloody tyranny of North Korea, because they are both based on well-known falsehoods.\u00a0 They are different degrees of corruption and malignancy, but they are both driven by socially accepted lies.<\/p>\n Sigmund Freud taught that reality testing was the greatest sign of sanity; all neuroses distort reality.\u00a0 So yes, the left is scientific in one respect — if your science studies human delusions.<\/p>\n The goal of science is to discover truth and to get rid of bad ideas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Harvard University fired President Larry Summers for daring to say that boys might have a genetic edge in pure math. \u00a0Historically more than 90 percent of math geniuses have been young males.\u00a0 They often seem to be mildly autistic; maybe those are the lonely kids who spend their waking hours thinking about pure mathematics instead of playing baseball.<\/p>\n The National Science Foundation is now investing millions of dollars in large-scale experiments on little girls, to make them better at higher math.\u00a0 Nobody seems to be wondering if their normal sociability might be harmed as a result. \u00a0Whom are those little girls going to talk to? \u00a0Math whizzes devote thousands of hours to numbers and topology.\u00a0 Does it occur to anybody how lonely those math whizzes often are?<\/p>\n A century ago, left-handed kids were forced to switch to their right hands for writing. \u00a0It never worked, and that nutty craze ended up with thousands of self-hating adults, who felt there was something terribly wrong with them. \u00a0Just a decade ago Latino kids were forced to learn in bilingual classes in California — when parents know that it’s hard enough to learn the three R<\/em>s in only one language. \u00a0Today Hispanic kids are running statistically behind the others, maybe because millions of them had to start with a handicap. \u00a0It’s always “idealistic” adults who inflict their nutty fixations on helpless children.<\/p>\n Two centuries after Jefferson, Franklin, and Benjamin Rush, we are now governed by science frauds.\u00a0 Just let that little fact bubble in your mind — and then do something about it, please.\u00a0 If we don’t do anything, nobody will.\u00a0 There’s far too much money in scientific fraud for it to go away by itself.<\/p>\n HT: American Thinker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by James Lewis – The news leaked out a while ago that Al Gore scored a D in natural science at Harvard.\u00a0 That would be the science introduction for Other Majors, not difficult chemistry or calculus. \u00a0So Nobel Laureate Al Gore got a D in Science for Dummies. 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