Friday Video – How 'Social Proof' Kills Scientific Skepticism and Conquers Morality

Here’s one for Lou!  Seriously, this is a good discussion of what we used to call peer pressure, but what they now call ‘Social Proof’.  Excellent comment on the YouTube thread:

“Science” is the new religion of the secular. Pointing this out causes them to foam at the mouth, “You don’t know what science is! You are an idiot! How dare you question science!” Science progresses by questioning existing science. Every experiment is conducted by humans, and the results are interpreted and reported by humans.

 

Billionaires' Club – The Environmental Movement & Politics

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“There aren’t a lot of functioning democracies around the world that work this way where you can basically have millionaires and billionaires bankrolling whoever they want, however they want, in some cases undisclosed. What it means is ordinary Americans are shut out of the process.” Barack Obama, White House press conference, Oct 2013.

Breitbart London, James Delingpole reporting:
“Yes, indeed. But the millionaires and billionaires doing the damage are Obama’s allies on the liberal-left, not his enemies on the right. So says a devastating report published today by the US Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works.
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