re: #115 Obdicut

Because apparently meaningless phrases might have meaning I don’t understand. I figured you wouldn’t actually be able to explain it, but I thought I’d give you the opportunity.

You took enough meaning from the phrase to take offense at it. I saw no reason to offer you a hand when you did pretty well for yourself, Mister Textual Indeterminacy.

What are you talking about with their record for ice ages?

Back in the 1970s/80s, some of the same people who are now shrieking about the end of the world through heat were shrieking about the end of the world through cold. I reserve the right to think they may be no more right today than they were then.

The basic science for AGW— Co2s action in the atmosphere— has been known since before the turn of the century.

Wow, a whole ten years or more. That’s what I call settled science.

I had thought you rather smarter than to think you were smarter than scientists who dedicate their lives to a subject.

Scientists who’ve dedicated their lives to the subject of nutrition have variously told me throughout my life that 1) the egg is bad for you, 2) the egg is good for you again, 3) high-fiber diets reduce the risk of cancer, 4) no they don’t, 5) high doses of vitamin C are essential, 6) wait, they’re pointless, you just piss away what the body can’t absorb, 7) cholesterol can be controlled through diet, 8) no, you need Lipitor, etc., etc., literally ad nauseam.

I’ve been around for well over two thousand years. I’ve seen the earth go from round to flat to round again. You will forgive me if I don’t put stock in what scientists whose discipline is in its infancy predict about what the world should do and how all of us should stand everything on its head just because they all - well, most of them - happen to agree about something at any given moment.

All the doctors since Galen believed in the four-humors theory of medicine until about 150 years ago. Oops!