The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[lizziebith]

Science by majority is, in fact, the rule. It's called "peer review." You can't get published without it. Are mistakes made? Hell yeah. But the diff. between science and theology is that science will admit mistakes (for example, plate tectonic theory -- originally laughed at, now taken as obvious). Thank you, first-year archaeology professor, for explaining that to the creationists taking his class just to disrupt proceedings.

Peer review is still the best way we have at our disposal to check the weird ideas. If a weird idea is spot on, though, it will eventually sway...and I happen to think the system rocks in its own funky way.

If it is shown that the globe isn't warming, I'll be surprised, but I've been surprised by more mundane things, so...*shrug* My dollar is on warming.