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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (1986)	1/9/2003 4:02:19 PM
From: mistermj	Respond to of 15993

Thanks Alastair!This is all very interesting. >>For example, the Committees rely heavily on Stephen Schneider's complaint about Lomborg's treatment of climate science in The Skeptical Environmentalist. The Committees describe Schneider as "a particularly respected researcher who has been discussing these problems for 30 years." But Schneider is hardly always a paragon of scientific integrity. In a now famous interview with Discover magazine, Schneider showed his true colors: "On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but - which means that we must include all the doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people, we'd like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change. To do that, we need to get some broad-based support, to capture the public's imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. … Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." << So much for the "scientific method". IMO this kind of crap happens over and over again.Global warming,low fat diets,ozone depletion,asteroids..........