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To: combjelly who wrote (550806)	2/18/2010 1:07:13 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572594

>>Listen, the right wing selling this anti intellectual crap to our country is terrible." To be fair, the Left went through a period of anti-intellectualism. It wasn't until well into the 1970s that it changed.<< Untrue: Tell me how you came to that conclusion? With all due respect that could not be further from the truth. The reason, is that the 60's was the highest level of intellectual behavior, this country, and indeed the world, ever experienced. This can be evidenced by the fact every major university in the country (world) and many cultures were bubbling cauldrons of exisential awakening; and by the fact UC Berkeley was the headquarters (one of the toughest universities in the world to get into, with among the best students). One would expect an existential revolution to be led by the best and the brightest, as it would make sense they would understand the complex concepts of existentialism and attendent philosophies like Zen, first. The left never went through a period of anti intellectualism. For a very simple reason. The left has been supplanting mankinds cultures of myth, with a culture of reason for centuries and that requires education.

To: combjelly who wrote (550806)	2/18/2010 1:23:26 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1572594

Lawrence Solomon: Vindication -- Dutch global warming denier "was right after all" Posted: February 18, 2010, 12:10 PM by Lawrence Solomon Lawrence Solomon, Climate change, global warming, Deniers, KNMI, Henk Tennekes De Telegraaf, the Netherlands' largest daily newspaper, has totally vindicated the country's most prominent global warming denier in a prominent article entitled "Henk Tennekes - He was right after all." Tennekes was the director of the Netherlands Meteorological Institute, KNMI, until the early 1990s, when his skepticism of the climate science coming out of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change led to his forced resignation. A translation into English of De Telegraaf's vindication appears here. probeinternational.org