The 'Scientific' American article mentions once the biased nature of the sample and everywhere else in the article equates the results with the general public in violation of statistics 101. The hate speech of the D-word is also utilized:
Numerous polls show a decline in the percentage of Americans who believe humans affect climate, but our survey suggests the nation is not among the worst deniers. (Those are France, Japan and Australia.)Multiple polls worldwide now show only 30-40% of the public at large believe in human-induced climate change. Thus, 'Scientific' American effectively manages to insult many of its international online readers as 'deniers' and insults the majority of the international public at large as 'deniers.' Why don't they also label anyone who doubts the science on any of the other topics above as 'deniers?'
I have also noticed that so-called "skeptical" organizations such as CSICOP are also very loving of that term "denier". Basically, they think AGW is scientific because of a consensus. Not to mention they are in full support of SETI, which is based on faulty equations.
ReplyDeleteAnd did they just insult Japan? Why not Russia or China? After all, they didn't even approve of AGW, let alone "deny" it.
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