http://TheGlobalWarmingFraud.wordpress.com“Valid criticism does you a favor.†– Carl Sagan, Demon Haunted World, p 32
“Truth never lost ground by enquiry.†– WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die…..†– Max Planck
“Men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.†— Goethe, from Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret
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“Scientific Consensus†– Consensus is Not Science
Claudius Ptolemy (85AD – 165 AD) made the plausible but entirely erroneous scientific claim that the earth was the center of the universe. This was the “scientific consensus†for more than 1400 years. Nicholas Copernicus (1473 – 1543) proposed a heliocentric theory which was accepted by Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) but few others. Philolaus of Croton (c. 470 – c. 385 BCE) proposed a Central Fire in the middle and the planets moved around this Central Fire. Aristarchus of Samos ( c. 310 – c. 230 BC) was the first one to deduce the rotation of earth on its axis. Anaxagoras (c. 510 – c. 428 BC) thought that the stars were other bodies like our own sun, but as so often has been the case, science was rejected for many centuries.
“Heavier than air flight is impossible.†– Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific organization in the world, 1895
“If we all worked on the assumption that what is thought to be true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.†– Orville Wright, a bicycle mechanic who flew in 1903
So much for the Fallacy of the Argument From Authority, always asserted by AlGorians who insist on the fabricated “97% consensus†argument that global warming, renamed “climate change,†is settled. It assuredly is not.
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.†~ Galileo Galilei
