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Re: Finally--a use of public funding that I can really get behind!
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Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:27:17 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Carl Nelson wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
   I knew it!

   That just shows the agenda behind the study. I thought the scientific method was to formulate a hypothesis, test, and revise the hypothesis accordingly, not to formulate a hypothesis and bend the facts into it.

First of all, you’re inferring an underlying agenda simply because you don’t like the results of the study. To verify the presence of an agenda, you have to do more than simply object to the findings. Secondly, where in the article to you see evidence that the researchers altered their data? As a useful counterpoint, the Bush administration deleted big portions of a recent EPA report on global warming, specifically to exclude data that would identify human use of fossil fuels as a key contributor to increased levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. So in that case, your tax dollars were used to modify scientific findings to achieve an industry-friendly end.

   I can’t believe my tax dollars paid for this BS!


Well, let’s be fair. Assuming a tax base of just 120 million citizens, you’re paying $.01 toward that study. And consider that your your tax dollars are also being used to fund studies to allow the logging industry to cut down chunks of Federal forests, and your tax money is being used to pay Halliburton billions to rebuild a country that your tax dollars helped to destroy.

Dave!



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  Re: Finally--a use of public funding that I can really get behind!
 
(...) Showing that they have an agenda: what is their comparable study on the psychological causes of liberalism? It starts from an inferred premise that liberalism is simply right, and there must be deficiencies in conservatives to make them (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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  Re: Finally--a use of public funding that I can really get behind!
 
(...) I love the part where Hitler and Mussolini are termed conservatives. They believed in the cornerstones of conservatism, smaller government, free markets, less regulation, the sacredness of human life, etc. That just shows the agenda behind the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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