(Totally OT) Re: DMD 0.175 release

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Lutger wrote:

> Don Clugston wrote:
> <snip>
>> There's a lot of junk science around, no doubt about it, in all kinds of
>> directions. An interesting one is that a lot of air pollution publicity
>> was funded by cigarette companies (so that people would blame their
>> chronic bronchitis and lung cancer on environmental factors, instead of
>> the toxic chemicals they were pumping directly into their lungs twenty
>> times per day...).
> 
> The same happened to research that denied human influence on global
> warming - it was (partly) sponsored by oil companies. The effect of this
> on public opinion was that it destroyed the image of consensus, making
> it into a controversial subject. Even though only handful of (sponsored)
> scientist deny the phenonemon as opposed to several thousands that more
> or less agree, it still *looks* like there is something to dispute,
> hence not worry about it.

Funnily enough, Norwegian politicians are all about saving the environment,
except the little catch that the Norwegian economy is so oil boosted that
it's been "hard" for them to actually do anything that matters. It's
seemingly improving now, though. Too bad Norway is too small a country to
really make a difference.

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Lars Ivar Igesund
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