We Used Terrible Science to Justify Smoking Bans.
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It's never 100% about the science. We know that there are tons of negative issues with pot, with very good studies, but... We also have tons of studies showing the negative impact of the internal combustion engines...
There is just a large faction of folks that were affected negatively by a cigarette in their youth.
There is just a large faction of folks that were affected negatively by a cigarette in their youth.
Correlation implies the existence of a relationship between variables, without proving the nature of the relationship. In other words, correlation cannot be used to prove causation.
That's fully understood by scientists, even if it's not understood by policy makers and the media.
That's not the same as "terrible science." It might very well be terrible policy, but no scientist in the history of ever has banned smoking.
That's fully understood by scientists, even if it's not understood by policy makers and the media.
That's not the same as "terrible science." It might very well be terrible policy, but no scientist in the history of ever has banned smoking.
When I was in college I worked in a research wing of a university and the very first thing I learned, after being issued my spiffy lab coat, was that in order to survive we have to have GOVERNMENT grants. The process of being awarded grants is sausage making to the extreme and you're always beholding to the grant issuer. We were doing work at Lake Mead here in Nevada and all of our work needed to support certain water policies and it's pretty shitty what people do to get their "paycheck".
Science has been for sale and always have been.
Science has been for sale and always have been.
I knew this topic would come around to this:
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Actually it's the fossil fuel companies and politicians who have used skewed data to try to debunk the steadily growing evidence that man-made climate change is happening. how do we know co2 is causing warming
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Uh ohh, we got a religious zealot here, Man-Made Climate Change!
Co2 is heavier than air, downinit. Poor Co2, an essential life gas gets scapegoated just like second hand smoke, by Secular believers of a faith born in Marxism. Give us a break :roll:
And then the link, the link! :rofl:
Co2 is heavier than air, downinit. Poor Co2, an essential life gas gets scapegoated just like second hand smoke, by Secular believers of a faith born in Marxism. Give us a break :roll:
And then the link, the link! :rofl:
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