[LINK] In Retirement on this thread - Was - The meaning of

[David Boxall]

On 29/06/2012 2:36 PM, Gordon Keith wrote:
> ...
> Tom
>
> Science has very little to do with what is good for humanity, it is about how
> things are.
>
> Science may be able to calculate that the expected population loss in the area
> of impact of a tsunami of a given size is 1 in a thousand, but it is totally
> neutral about whether that level of loss is acceptable or not. The decision
> about what is acceptable is a political one which may be informed by the
> science.
> ...
Has anybody else noticed that nothing Tom writes is worth reading, but 
the responses are? On Link, it seems, Tom serves the purpose of Court 
Jester or Village Idiot.

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