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As if policy "experts" were not growing almost daily in disrepute, along came the Environmental Protection Agency Monday to fortify, in a backward way, the case for just plain old, you know, common sense in public policy. No 2,000-page congressional bills; no international conferences; just homely intuition, leading to the conclusion that, Pa, this whole thing don't sound right.
Until recently we hadn't had that sort of whoa, hold it, in the face of untested testimony by phalanxes of scientists and the like. Doubtless this is why the EPA hopes, if...
A Bad Year for the Experts
The only way you would consider changing your beliefs is for there to be a consensus in the other direction?????
Ok I think it’s time to define the word consensus. This is from the “Merriam-Webster Dictionary” (ISBN 0-671-52612-X) I keep on my desk:
Consensus: n 1. Agreement in opinion, testimony, or belief. 2. Collective opinion.
Now don’t hurt yourself but I am going to ask you to think things through for a minute. If consensus means that there is an agreement in opinion and there is a debate raging in the scientific community because they do not agree then how can...