Over at the New Atlantis, I have a brief editorial on the Climate email scandal that just erupted a few days ago. The emails just recently made public are not just illuminating with respect to the scientific intergrity of this particular group of scientists, or the general scientific legitimacy of global warming as a whole, but the peculiar way the modern preoccupation with politically neutral science has a tendency to clandestinely import the most ideologically rigid political attachments.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 9:25 PM
Ivan Kenneally
November 24th, 2009 | 9:38 pm
Hmm… perhaps another reason to support the age-old doctrine of “seperation of scientists and state.”
:)
November 24th, 2009 | 10:29 pm
A single email out of thousands of megabytes of data from ten years ago that talks about making mild alterations to a single graph from a single researcher at a single institute questions the “general scientific legitimacy” of anthropogenic global warming? I think that what this event actually proves is that conspiracy mongering and paranoia have overtaken the right in a way that is genuinely undermining its ability to make informed judgments.
November 25th, 2009 | 9:06 am
Is it just my imagination, or are these people beginning to sound like SNL’s ‘Church Lady’ in a labcoat? “Hmmm…there’s a trend in Armadillos dodging trucks in greater frequencey…could it be…global warming?”
November 25th, 2009 | 11:26 am
what is the big deal? if this is postmodern science, all data is “constructed” anyhow, so why the hyper sensitivity about objectivity? scientists today are the legislators of the world, giving them the license to present data in the interest of one party or another.
November 25th, 2009 | 11:55 am
Dear Ivan,
I would like to get your permission to translate some of your articles to our e-zine in Slovakia. Could you please get back to me by mail whether this is possible ?
Kind Regards,
Milan
November 25th, 2009 | 4:33 pm
Ivan, thanks for this.
It’s more and more obvious that many of our scientists and intellectuals have been compromised. They have in the instance you cited and in any number of other examples engaged in gross error either as a result of a misconception of the ground and meaning of existence or, more likely, because they have accepted, for reasons of purely personal advancement, conditions whereby they are restricted in their opinions by parameters dictated by the pathological progeny of political correctness: multiculturalism, diversity and the resultant ideologies of the failed liberal project.
It’s sad, really. What these scientists and intellectuals fail to understand is that in participating in the lie, either implicitly or explicitly, they are turning away from the ground of existence, participating in a “withdrawal from the humanity that is constituted by the tension toward the ground.” They become purveyors of “pravae opiniones (twisted opinions).” they lose any opportunity to participate in the well-ordered life, their soul becomes diseased.
December 4th, 2009 | 10:06 am
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