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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (9436)3/21/2004 10:42:24 PM
From: Brumar89Read Replies (1) of 81568
 
Union of Concerned Scientists is a political environmentalist group. Not simply "scientist". The idea they speak for "science" is nonsense.

Here’s how it works: UCS conducts an opinion poll of scientists or organizes a petition that scientists sign. Then they manipulate or misconstrue the results in order to pronounce that science has spoken. In 1986 UCS asked 549 of the American Physical Society’s 37,000 members if Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was “a step in the wrong direction for America’s national security policy.” Despite the biased wording of the push-poll question, only 54 percent disapproved of SDI. Even so, UCS declared that the poll proved “profound and pervasive skepticism toward SDI in the scientific community.”
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* In 1980 UCS predicted that the earth would soon run out of fossil fuels. “It is now abundantly clear,” the group wrote, “that the world has entered a period of chronic energy shortages.” Oops! Known reserves of oil, coal and natural gas have never been higher, and show every sign of increasing.

* To improve fuel efficiency, UCS argues for lighter tires on SUVs. But lighter tires are blamed -- even by Ralph’s Nader’s Public Citizen -- for tread separation. 148 deaths and more than 500 injuries were attributed to tread separation in Firestone tires alone.

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