Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
Congratulations Wizwor, I have rarely seen a post that short that also managed to contain so many metric tons of derp. From climate change denial, to a deeply flawed misstatement of natural selection (even Darwin described the benefit of helping the "less fit", and his theory has been refined to an incredible extent since then) and to a head-scratcher of a statement about vegans and abortion.
I really shouldn't, but I am going to pick a specific nit in your post - that Time cover you posted is fake. Time never predicted a coming ice age. Here's the actual, undoctored cover:
The idea in the 70s that the Earth was cooling rather than warming? Ya, that was an invention of the media and did not reflect scientific opinion. A survey of peer-reviewed scientific papers published between 1965 and 1979 showed that the large majority of research at the time predicted that the earth would warm as carbon-dioxide levels rose. |