Comments on: How Society Will Accept Rational Science: The Best Way to Frame Global Warming and Evolution

By: melior

melior — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:59:10 +0000

Reminds me of the classic Onion storyless headline, “Lead now the heaviest element, survey shows.”

By: uncle noel

uncle noel — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:52:14 +0000

There you go picking on TX agin’. If you grew up in Odessa, you’d probably think the world was flat, too.Seriously: I’m surprised at the data. I have seen many conservatives go from “there is no warming” to “it isn’t anthropogenic”, but I guess that happened before 2006. In any case, it’s rather obvious that, once again, conservatives confuse what they want to be true, with what is apparently true.

By: Omar ali

Omar ali — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:27:19 +0000

I am increasingly coming around to the view that what needs to happen is already happening and we need to keep doing our work without feeling all hopeless and paranoid (unless feeling all hopeless and paranoid gives you some pleasure, in which case, please carry on..). Evolution has become a “core issue” for the religious right (which, among other things, is a semi-rational political enterprise with fairly rational short term political aims, mostly having to do with grabbing more money and power in the shortest possible time…and having NOTHING whatsoever to do with actually believing bullshit about talking snakes). As such, they are not going to shut up about it. Science in general is sufficiently complicated that MOST people really understand it only to the extent that they get a simplified (oversimplified) version from “experts”. When a competing version is in the market, a good number of people are bound to be fooled if “their experts” are pushing ID, specially if if it is stamped with religious authority. Still, the more educated segments of society are going to stick with evolution. Scientists and science supporters should continue all efforts to get their view across. And learn to live with the fact that for a few years, this nonsense will be with us…

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:14:36 +0000

The existence of the film may have had more impact than the seeing of the film.

By: Matt Platte

Matt Platte — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:55:56 +0000

Uh… what the first Matt said. KTHKSBYE———^.^–

By: Matt Penfold

Matt Penfold — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:11:49 +0000

“Oh, and while we are on the subject, you may want to have a stab at this question being posed at 3.14: Did An Inconvenient Truth Change Your Mind?”My answer is no.And not because I deny global warming is happening, or even that it caused by human activity. It is because I have read enough in the informed media to accept the scientific evidence presented. The film had no effect at all, as I have yet to see it.