Junk Science
By Late Nite LeRoy
August 20, 2001
Intelligent people are bombarded with misinformation daily. Television
specializes in feeding us mindless entertainment, titillating scandals, then
makes you feel intellectual by casually dropping some junk science into the
conversation and inferring that anyone who challenges the "consensus"
is a fool or crackpot.
Daniel Ellsburg was recently aired on C-Span, lecturing about his famous
"Pentagon Papers." A reporter asked him about the press' acceptance of
his information versus any other conspiracy theory or mud slinging of the time.
He answered that the only thing that made his arguments of the day credible was
his ability to present documentation. He mentioned in the lecture of a more
powerful and condemning set of papers that existed at the time, which he said
would have exposed both Democrats and Republicans as lying frauds, but he did
not have physical access to them, and thus could not use them.
But history shows that the weaker "documentation" went on to
contribute to Richard Nixon's downfall. More powerful hearsay, didn't accomplish
anything.
In our almost daily battle with information we know in our conscience to be
false, we likewise must be able to show documentation. Here are two powerful web
sites that easily enable you to accomplish this.
If the answer you seek is in scripture, http://www.blueletterbible.org/
offers an online King James Version with Strong's concordance, Hebrew and Greek
word definitions. You can look up passages by word or phrase or post full
chapters.
If you need a degreed scientist's evidence to refute a bogus claim, http://www.junkscience.com/
offers a huge database of technical papers by scientists who actually studied
their specialty, not the ones who slept through class, bought the test answers,
then went to work for the UN with no credible knowledge of anything they claim.
Papers and reports by many of the scientists who I have quoted from the recent
Doctors for Disaster Preparedness are compiled here.
Your conscience will point you in the right direction, but it sure helps to have
the actual, exact words in front of you to establish your position on any issue.
--LateNiteLeroy
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