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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 4029270" data-attributes="member: 12508">Psuedoscience is what the Right has. For example, my local Libertarian radio host notes that we&#039;ve had a cold winter, therefore, there cannot be global warming. Or Genius Trump notes that a bomb cyclone means that we cannot possibly have global warming. Weather is short-term, climate change is long-term.It makes no difference to you because you&#039;ve been taught that clean coal exists (it doesn&#039;t), and that there will always be technological advances that neutralize or eliminate pollutants. You believe it because it &quot;sounds right&quot;. And that&#039;s because your &quot;expert&quot; knows exactly what it takes to convince you, and that&#039;s usually emotional appeals or just plain stupid &quot;conclusions&quot; drawn from faulty thought processes and/or cherry-picked data. You want to hear &quot;facts&quot; that mean you don&#039;t need to be concerned about the environment or the local coal mine down the road. They will happily peddle you BS pseudoscience that your simple mind can easily process into an end result that you need not do anything or think about it any longer.For decades, the merchants of doubt, who are financed by industry, successfully convinced you that smoking wasn&#039;t necessarily a cause of cancer, that coal could be a clean fuel, and that burning massive amounts of petrochemicals aren&#039;t an issue. Some scientists will lie for enough money, and there are plenty of non-science types that will lie for less, and make it sound like they&#039;re telling you the truth.In other words, you&#039;re a soft target intellectually and can be told almost anything false and easily convinced that it is true. Go on rolling coal, and dumping your used oil down the storm drain because it&#039;s not a problem.You&#039;ve got what it takes to be a Republican. Congratulations.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 4029270, member: 12508"] Psuedoscience is what the Right has. For example, my local Libertarian radio host notes that we've had a cold winter, therefore, there cannot be global warming. Or Genius Trump notes that a bomb cyclone means that we cannot possibly have global warming. Weather is short-term, climate change is long-term. It makes no difference to you because you've been taught that clean coal exists (it doesn't), and that there will always be technological advances that neutralize or eliminate pollutants. You believe it because it "sounds right". And that's because your "expert" knows exactly what it takes to convince you, and that's usually emotional appeals or just plain stupid "conclusions" drawn from faulty thought processes and/or cherry-picked data. You want to hear "facts" that mean you don't need to be concerned about the environment or the local coal mine down the road. They will happily peddle you BS pseudoscience that your simple mind can easily process into an end result that you need not do anything or think about it any longer. For decades, the merchants of doubt, who are financed by industry, successfully convinced you that smoking wasn't necessarily a cause of cancer, that coal could be a clean fuel, and that burning massive amounts of petrochemicals aren't an issue. Some scientists will lie for enough money, and there are plenty of non-science types that will lie for less, and make it sound like they're telling you the truth. In other words, you're a soft target intellectually and can be told almost anything false and easily convinced that it is true. Go on rolling coal, and dumping your used oil down the storm drain because it's not a problem. You've got what it takes to be a Republican. Congratulations. [/QUOTE]

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