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To: Bill who wrote (844707)	3/24/2015 11:37:55 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1573092

"look at what your mafia is doing to Mark Steyn Look at what Mark Steyn's mafia did to Michael Mann. "you guys don't want a debate" The debate about the greenhouse effect happened over 100 years ago. As a consolation prize, the loser, Angstrom, had a very small measurement named after him. "the settled junk science" ... In 1989, Jerry Mahlman (a proponent of the anthropogenic global warming theory) characterized the theory that global warming was due to solar variation (presented in Scientific Perspectives on the Greenhouse Problem by Frederick Seitz et al.) as "noisy junk science." [3]... John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton of PR Watch say the concept of junk science has come to be invoked in attempts to dismiss scientific findings that stand in the way of short-term corporate profits. In their book Trust Us, We're Experts (2001), they write that industries have launched multi-million-dollar campaigns to position certain theories as junk science in the popular mind, often failing to employ the scientific method themselves. For example, the tobacco industry has described research demonstrating the harmful effects of smoking and second-hand smoke as junk science, through the vehicle of various astroturf groups. en.wikipedia.org IOW, the practitioners of junk science are Watts, Goddard, Monckton, Heartland, Faux, Inhofe, Cruz, ad nauseum