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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
I am concerned at the pedestal that scientists are put on. It's like people believe their dedication to science somehow shields men from pride, greed, and plain old human error. There is also a tendency to see human thought and reasoning as somehow inferior if the person doesn't belong to this fraternity.
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You've made this mistake before and I am sure will continue to think that way.. but scientists aren't on the pedestal, it's science itself that is on the pedestal. Some scientists can be wrong, on the take, prideful, whatever, but science is open and you can't fake results forever; science corrects itself because new data, observations, predictions are constantly done to test the consensus.
If Gore misrepresented thing, that's a political thing not a scientific thing. That's the problem with the whole global warming "debate" in my mind, is it's completely politicized.
The fact that there is dispute about global warming is a result of lack of understanding the science more fully.