willhelm says: The materialist revival is surely emboldened and history is on a crash-course for centennial re-runs. Add to this the encroachment of socialist values, the tyranny of political correctness, militant-atheism, militant Islamo-fascism, environmental propagandists, the support for eugenics, the dismissal of the scientific method, the general common ignorance of our Paris Hilton world and we are not far from the thinking of Malthus. Of course all of the materialist rantings are hooey. There is no population crisis and there never will be. There is no global food and water crisis and there never will be. There is no global warming crisis and there never will be. The whispers of this lunacy have been gaining over time. Hmmm. Well certainly global warming is bunk. Or to be more precise, the idea that it is sensible to throw civilisation into a tailspin by absurd Kyoto type measures is alarming and dangerous. People sadly do not understand the nature of science or the many different disciplines within it. Scientists are just ordinary people. Some good some bad, all with their fair share of human weaknesses and failings. Most people in climate science have been in it less than a decade and no little about it. They are just attracted by easy pickings. The quality of most of the published stuff is truly awful. Even if you believe all the absurd computer projections (is anyone old enough to remember the Club of... Actually, population control isn't that bad of an idea! We could start by sterilizing all the people with an I.Q. of under 140...okay, okay...120 and all the ultra-liberals and ultra-conservatives. In capturing the sentiment that I would rather be ruled by the first 100 people listed in the Boston than by the faculty of Harvard University, I would argue we start by sterilizing the higher IQs, not the lower. Although, I would probably set the bar "cut off" higher....I've never been into self-castration. *listed in the Boston phone book..... |
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