A most excellent example of
groupthink. Couldn't be better:
Quote:
...Groupthink, a term coined by social psychologist Irving Janis (1972), occurs when a group makes faulty decisions because group pressures lead to a deterioration of “mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment” (p. 9). Groups affected by groupthink ignore alternatives and tend to take irrational actions that dehumanize other groups. ...
4. Stereotyped views of out-groups – Negative views of “enemy” make effective responses to conflict seem unnecessary.
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So here comes **fill in your own choice of the worst villain ever in here**, claiming that water freezes at 0 degrees celsius / 32 F. So of course he is wrong since he is **fill in the same worst villain ever in here**.
So when is it going to be science talk again? In which, surprisingly enough, appears to be some substantiation for attributing warmth to the sun. For instance:
http://www.spacecenter.dk/publicatio...ient_No._3.pdf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen....globalwarming
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../11/warm11.xml
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0731080631.htm
http://www.spacecenter.dk/research/s...smoclimatology
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0111175828.htm
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313966,00.html
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20030320/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0212184713.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1023193345.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0926070112.htm
http://www.financialpost.com/story.h...4068db11f4&p=4
http://www.nature.com/news/2000/0012...s001207-6.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1001100950.htm
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4321
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.as...20071211a.html
http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...ut_030320.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1045327.stm
http://motls.blogspot.com/2004/09/su...mperature.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0801174450.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1210164606.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...ixnewstop.html
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Lib.../sorce_04.html
So, it's probably going to be increasingly tough to demonize all those people talking sun and spread the rumor that they may occasional fill up the gas tank at EXXON.