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   Dawn Flood to JTEM   
   Re: If predictions fail your hypothesis    
   27 Jan 26 15:52:44   
   
   XPost: alt.global-warming, alt.atheism   
   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/27/2026 3:06 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 1/27/26 1:40 PM, Dawn Flood wrote:   
   >   
   >> If the models have been "invalidated forever", why do scientists   
   >> continue to publish their models:   
   >   
   > How do you imagine they pay their mortgages? How do they make   
   > their car payments? Braces for the kids? Food on the table.   
   > Birthdays. Christmas. Clothes... their iPhones...   
   >   
   > Turn back the clock to the George Dubya Bush years and not   
   > one jackass ranting about "Climate Crisis" had any doubt that   
   > the scientific grant process was POLITICAL. That, if you   
   > wanted the grant money you did work -- and got results -- that   
   > the people signing your checks wanted to see.   
   >   
   > They even made a movie about it. You can rent it, even on that   
   > job at Starbucks, and watch it yourself. But, try to watch it   
   > with others, people who can explain it to you as it goes along:   
   >   
   > "A Flock of DoDos."   
   >   
   > There's one great scene in particular where these scientists   
   > are all sitting around, playing poker, and talking about this   
   > very issue!  At that time, under George Dubya Bush, the big   
   > issue wasn't Gwobull Warbling, it was evolution. Bush owed a   
   > lot to the Religious Reich, the fundies hate evolution and   
   > love creationism, even invented "Intelligent Design" to   
   > pretend that creationism isn't religion... but if you wanted   
   > them to sign the checks for you, you avoided evolution.   
   >   
   >     ...I even recall one money-brubbing ass lick of a   
   > "Scientist" who spewed some paper on how Darwin's "Pangenesis"   
   > was real, instead of the pseudo scientific nonsense we all   
   > know it is....   
   >   
   > Money.   
   >   
   > We've had proof of the corrupting power of money, we've had   
   > proof of how what we think of "Science" is more often politics   
   > and we've had this proof for DECADES. At least.   
   >   
   > And it's not just evolution and Gwobull Warbling either.   
   >   
   > I'm CONSTANTLY complaining about the fake "Science" they label   
   > "Paleo anthropology."   
   >   
   > "Paleo Anthropology" it so "Anthropology" what "Biblical   
   > Archaeology" is to "Archaeology."   
   >   
      
   And, so, it's been a century-long (and counting) conspiracy?!  Why no   
   whistle-blowers??  And, what about these guys:   
      
   https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/at-hist   
   ric-hearing-fossil-fuel-executives-admit-climate-crisis-is-an-urgent   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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