[LINK] CLimater scientist sues for defamation

[Jan Whitaker]

At 02:23 PM 25/10/2012, grove at zeta.org.au wrote:
>I would, too:
>
>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=climate-scientist-sues-for-defamation
>
>We live in a very weird age, where information gets mixed up with knowledge,
>where fact is subservient to opinion and where the experts who try
>to level the balance are mercilessly disparaged by cowards with too much
>editorial prescence and power trying to stifle the free flow of
>factual knowledge.
>
>God help us if Romney gets in.  The ALEC lobbyists and Tea Party will be
>much invigorated and I expect that will shortly lead to the breaking down
>of the systems that make science useful and information dependable.....

I'm reading a book right now, a novel by Ben Bova, called The 
Immortality Factor. It's about what is happening/might happen should 
a scientific breakthrough come that would allow for regeneration of 
organs. The characters described above fit this to a tee. It's pretty 
frightening stuff.

Jan



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