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To: SilentZ who wrote (346455)	8/11/2007 6:45:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (4) of 1574122

Thanks but it doesn't surprise me that that's how shortie or Harris got the info. What perplexes me is why this keeps happening over and over again. Why do these people repeatedly rely on mythology and hearsay for their source of info rather than the facts? At one time, it was amusing that there were people like them in this country. People would smugly make jokes about them. But now they are a strong influence and are leading the country down a dangerous path. I don't get how they got so powerful on idiocy and I don't get what is wrong with their brains. Hell, we are now 41st in the world in terms of lifespan. That is a huge slip! And that's only one of many slips. These are not rhetorical questions or comments. I really don't understand what has happened. If anyone has a clue, please feel free to enlighten me. This diary follows a rumor's spread through the conservative blogosphere. It begins with a story about how a persistent conservative blogger found a minor (but genuine) error in a NASA dataset, and how that error was promptly acknowledged and corrected. This story was told by the original blogger a few days ago, and then retold by other bloggers (with improvements) and again by other bloggers (with more improvements). By yesterday, we could read on A-List conservative blogs that "global warming hype" is largely derived from a Y2K bug, that the the new information is being suppressed by the media, and that someone had possibly launched an attack on the original blogger's web site to prevent the truth from getting out. We'll start at the beginning by looking at the underlying science; what the error was, and why it matters. And we'll see how that science got lost in successive retellings, even as sensational (but false) details were added.

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