seattle.politics

On Aug 30, 11:12 am, Bill Shatzer wrote:

> > in 1492 the scientific "consensus" in Europe was that the earth was
> > flat and that the sun revolved around the earth.
>
> In 1492, the scientific consensus was that the earth was quite round.
>
> That had been rather firmly accepted for one and a half millennia.
>
> 'Course, it turns out the earth is actually an oblate spheroid.
>
> Which doesn't make the round earthers -wrong-. It just meant the theory
> had to be tweaked a bit.
>
> No doubt global warming will be tweaked a bit in coming years as well.

In about 30 years. That's the pattern. At which time you'll be
freaking out about global cooling, if you're still around that is.


> But just as the round earthers were more correct than the flat earthers,
> the global warming scientists are more correct than the deniers.

Tell you what shatzie. You just go ahead and stay with your strong
suit of worrying about disproving my quip and the collateral topic
about what they knew or didn't know in 1492, and I'll stick with the
larger point about how ordering and threatening scientists into taking
certain positions for political reasons is bad science. Then after
that we'll discuss who is the flat-earther and who is the round
earther. Mmmm-kay??


> > Pfffffffftttttttt.
>
> Pfffttt yerself.

Indeed.


> Peace and justice

Or else, right?