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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (14395)	11/30/2009 8:13:36 PM
From: RetiredNow	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86356

Think about that assertion for a second. If GW is truly a conspiracy theory, then it is one that is absolutely sweeping and unprecedented in its scale. Speaking as a statistician, I think the probability of GW being true are much higher than the probability that any group of people could pull off such a stunningly large conspiracy to lie to the public in the age of the Internet. In the words of John Rennie from Scientific American: It is virtually impossible to disprove accusations of giant global conspiracies to those already convinced of them (can anyone prove that the Freemasons and the Roswell aliens aren't involved, too?). Let it therefore be noted that the magnitude of this hypothetical conspiracy would need to encompass many thousands of uncontroversial publications and respected scientists from around the world, stretching back through Arrhenius and Tyndall for almost 150 years...It is also one so powerful that it has co-opted the official positions of dozens of scientific organizations including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Physics and the American Meteorological Society. scientificamerican.com