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Re: [Pen-l] A reply to Brian Baker on marxist.com



On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The articles generally follow the following formula. (I know this since I have written several of them.) They assert that there is a growing scientific consensus that human agency is a factor in climate change. They neither attempt to prove the consensus is correct nor to disprove. They leave science to the scientists.


What does it mean to say "leave science to the scientists"? Is this all science is - some sort of elitist priesthood inaccessible to the unwashed masses, who should humbly accept what they are told by their intellectual superiors?

Who is the Pope of this new Catholic church? Richard Dawkins?

-raghu.


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