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A Reply to Dennis Prager's Open Letter

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robdouth1/27/2010 3:23:26 pm PST

re: #48 Gus 802

No, I think you missed Prager’s point. It wasn’t that anecdotal evidence showed they were wrong. His point is that people came out and hysterically claimed silicone breast implants caused A, B, and C. He’s claiming they jumped the shark, not that people like him proved them wrong. It’s that later science proved them wrong, and I believe he’s trying to draw the parallel that he feels later science will again prove AGW wrong, but unfortunately I believe for him this is the case of the boy who cried wolf one too many times, being right on this one and him not getting on board.

His problem is that he has seen some hysteria be disproved over time, but each incident has to be taken on it’s merit. This isn’t a trending thing where you can draw conclusions from other pseudo-scientific hysterias. By trying to follow previous formulas, he’s ignoring the real science of this specific case. The other incidents he mentioned are non-sequitirs to the case of AGW.