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Originally Posted by kennyc
Truth in that, but all I was really getting at is trying to do science in the media instead of in the lab. 
You are right about the data though in both cases.
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The tactics of the global warming deniers and young-earth creationists are similar. Both like to nit-pick and find anomalies, then point to them as “proof” of the falsity of evolution/global warming.
I believe one of the reasons so many people in our country have been taken in by the denial movement is that the findings of the climatologists are reported in peer-reviewed journals such as
Nature, while the rebuttals of the deniers are reported on Fox News and printed in Rupert Murdoch's
Wall Street Journal. Most of the public are exposed to television, and many entrepreneurs regularly read Murdoch's
Wall Street Journal; but few Americans ever read
Nature. Then there’s the money trail. The deniers are always harping on grant money that scientists receive for promising research; but all the grant money in the world isn’t a hill of beans when contrasted against the deep pockets of moneyed interests such as Exxon.