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To: TimF who wrote (548133)	2/6/2010 5:54:46 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576211

Not exactly true. There is plenty of controversy on other scientific issues, within the scientific community. There have been cheats, frauds, and plenty of embarrassing mistakes in science. There has even been scientific consensus around thing like the earth is flat or the sun orbits the earth. All of that was later overturned. Global warming just happens to have a lot of impact on the daily lives of humans and finances, and as such, is a political hot potato. Therefore, the public, layman scrutiny the science gets is far greater than other issues. But the same problems that the GOP likes to highlight on the science of global warming can be found in many other scientific issues. Let me give you a little factoid you can take to the bank. Any time you put a large bunch of humans together to study something, I can guarantee you there will be those among the group who will lie and cheat. But that's what's great about science. The facts will eventually overwhelm the bad science over the long run, even if it is heavily politicized like global warming is today. 100 years from now, scientists and laymen both will be looking back and laughing at the stupidity of one side or the other. I'm betting that the ones that will be laughed at will be those that claim that human activity is having no impact on the environment or the climate.