nom=de=plume wrote:
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Guys. Why do you take this stuff so seriously. Enough to ruin
friendshps?

Is it really worth it?



Tim, I'm not friends with anyone here. I've seen sniping from both sides,
but the continued lying about checkable facts is really appalling. I find it
hard to believe that these two (or three) are actually friends. I have many
friends who are much more conservative on social issues than I, yet we all
make an honest effort to cite facts as facts and opinion as opinion.

The global warming thing is a prime example. Some recent news was that there
were several factual errors in a comprehensive report about global warming
(done by Nobel-winning scientists). The errors were actually discovered by
scientists familiar with the issues... typos such as 2350 vs 2035... and
none of the errors materially change the conclusions of this important
paper. Yet, yet... this is now going to be used as another way to debunk the
actual science.


A Nobel prize has been diluted and those who have won it are no longer
relevant.