2010/1/26 Michael Lewis <[email protected]>
> Per Edman wrote:
>
>> 2010/1/25 Michael <[email protected] <mailto:
>> [email protected]>>
>> "Fantastic doctrines (like Christianity or Islam or Marxism)
>> require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the
>> creed of millions. Thus the fear and the hate; thus the torture
>> chamber, the iron stake, the gallows, the labor camp, the
>> psychiatric ward." Ed Abbey
>>
>> I would have preferred a scientific, sourced example rather than
>> thinly-veiled *ALARMISM* about labor camps and torture chambers.
>>
>
> Fortunately, one's personal preferences do not apply here.
That's a genuinely funny comment.
I was hoping for examples of the "multiple independent lines of evidence"
you mentioned but the disappointment will pass. Did you mean Svensmark et
al?
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