Fri.Feb 03, 2012

Tony Mayo

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Dogma Danger, III

Tony Mayo

Nobel prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever resigned from the American Physical Society (APS) because the scientific group had become dogmatic on global warming. Their 2007 National Policy Statement on Climate Change emphasized two sentences by placing them apart in their own paragraph: The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. “Incontrovertible” means “not open to question.” Professor Giaever’s letter of resignation noted the irony of their [.].

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