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3. I agree. There is a lot of nonsense published here by people who have never opene...
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 06:17 AM
Jan 2017

...a science book in their lives, and yet feel qualified to make statements on subjects they know nothing about.

My favorite example of this sort, are people who whine endlessly about Fukushima, as if it were the worst energy disaster of all time.

In doing this, they trivialize climate change, and of course, the seven million people who die each year from air pollution.

They are very, very, very, very stupid, and to my mind, dangerous people.

They simply wander around the internet picking up dogmatic cant, without realizing in their tiny little minds, that the core issues of the energy and the environment are very much tied up with scientific and engineering knowledge.

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