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If Michael Crichton could respond to Obama’s SOTU
After watching the drivel that passes for science coming out of Obama’s blabbering mouth last night, I couldn’t help but remember this wonderful lecture given by the late author Michael Crichton at CalTech Jan. 17, 2003. It’s called “Aliens Cause Global Warming” and I encourage everyone to read the transcript. It shows how over the last three decades scientists have begun to “intermingle scientific and political claims.” Sound familiar? It’s a bit long but well worth the read.
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My topic today sounds humorous but unfortunately I am serious. I am going to argue that extraterrestrials lie behind global warming. Or to speak more precisely, I will argue that a belief in extraterrestrials has paved the way, in a progression of steps, to a belief in global warming. Charting this progression of belief will be my task today.
Let me say at once that I have no desire to discourage anyone from believing in either extraterrestrials or global warming. That would be quite impossible to do.
Rather, I want to discuss the history of several widely-publicized beliefs and to point to what I consider an emerging crisis in the whole enterprise of science-namely the increasingly uneasy relationship between hard science and public policy.
2013-02-16 05:51:56
Source: http://climatechangedispatch.com/home/10997-if-michael-crichton-could-respond-to-obamas-sotu
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