SCIENCE IS TRUE AND SCIENTISTS ARE NOT GREEDY

The spinmeisters will attack anything and anybody that publishes inconvenient truths, especially if it has any perceived effect on their privileged position, economic welfare and status.  To hear the corporate spinmeisters tell it, science and scientists are part of a greedy lie fest where climate change is concerned.

Al Gore made this graphically plain in his latest rebuttal, which you can read about and listen to here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/30/gore-climate-change-deniers_n_940802.html

The very idea that scientists as a whole would propound false information and statistics to enrich themselves is preposterous, but the charge is constantly being made by those with a vested interest in the status quo. 

As Al points out, scientists aren't rich individuals.  Most of them can live comfortably but they are not able to hire expensive lobbyists to "spin" their self-serving (and supposedly falsified) views.  That role falls to the corporate tycoons who have a very real vested interest in things staying just as they are -- and have oodles and boodles of cash lying around.  Scientists have to be content with occasionally getting an article published in some peer reviewed and criticized journal few will ever see or even hear about outside the scientific community.  Their sharpest critics will be their fellow scientists who will be looking for any inconsistency or skewed fact and ready to pounce on it if they find it.

If I'm going to believe anything, it will be those carefully studied, researched, documented and peer reviewed pronouncements -- not some spinmeistered denial by a pseudoscientist in the pay of and beholden to the corporate establishment.

GO, GORE

Some of my self-righteous, once-upon-a-time friends don't like my plain speaking when I get upset with the crap religionists, the Tea Party and other ultra-conservatives shovel our way. 

One chided me for "naughty language."  I retorted by challenging him to sue me.

When we are subjected to outright lies by sanctimonious deceivers with an agenda to confuse and obfuscate, there is a time to call them out and drop the nicey nice facade they like to put forth. 

Every conman is nicey nice!  That's how they worm their way in and breeze by your defenses!

Al Gore got riled up and outspoken at the Aspen Institute last Thursday.  Hear it here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SfWdDP5v_A

The "rant" was labeled humorous on You Tube.  No, it isn't!  It's much too serious a subject to be called "humorous!"

It was "plain speaking!"

It's time to call out and thoroughly expose all these pseudo-everythings.  They're everwhere!  They're in climate science.  They're in Paleontolgy (creationists).  They're in economics.  Anywhere you find the corrosive influence of any rabid religionists and ultra-conservatives, you are going to find pseudo-somethings with their insidious lies and misinformation!

Bullshit is bullshit.  It's time to label it for the crap it is and be plain and unapologizing for doing so. 

Hats off to you, Al. 

Keep it up!