Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Mad Scientist, 3
A young Apprentice Inquisitor is getting fine publicity and assistance from the Senior Inquisitors in his attempt to burn a Heretical Textbook.
From this morning's AP story.
There's that "mistaken impression" language, this time from Grand Inquisitor Hansen. Starting to sound awfully familiar.
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Afterthought: Grand Inquisitor Hansen also loves to complain that the Bush Administration is "silencing" him. How can anyone even listen to that nonsense when he spends all his time very loudly burning heretics for the greater glory of Gaia? Yeah, I know this is Gambit #5 in the standard Leninist playbook, but it's just ... cheap, for lack of a better word. Savonarola and Torquemada didn't complain that the Pope was trying to silence them. Come on, Grand Inquisitor Hansen, at least show some pride in your chosen profession. ¶ 6:47 AM
From this morning's AP story.
LaClair said he was particularly upset about the book's treatment of global warming. The book says that "science doesn't know whether we are experiencing a dangerous level of global warming or how bad the greenhouse effect is, if it exists at all."
A newer edition published late last year was changed to say, "Science doesn't know how bad the greenhouse effect is," but the authors kept a phrase stating that global warming is "enmeshed in scientific uncertainty."
James Hansen, the director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, recently heard about La Clair's concerns and has lent him some support.
Hansen has sent Houghton Mifflin a letter stating that the book's discussion on global warming contained "a large number of clearly erroneous statements" that give students "the mistaken impression that the scientific evidence of global warming is doubtful and uncertain."
There's that "mistaken impression" language, this time from Grand Inquisitor Hansen. Starting to sound awfully familiar.
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Afterthought: Grand Inquisitor Hansen also loves to complain that the Bush Administration is "silencing" him. How can anyone even listen to that nonsense when he spends all his time very loudly burning heretics for the greater glory of Gaia? Yeah, I know this is Gambit #5 in the standard Leninist playbook, but it's just ... cheap, for lack of a better word. Savonarola and Torquemada didn't complain that the Pope was trying to silence them. Come on, Grand Inquisitor Hansen, at least show some pride in your chosen profession. ¶ 6:47 AM
