WAITING FOR SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE: A crime against humanity? It's not enough to have scientific consensus, you have to have it when the politicians think you should have it.
In his new book, "The Assault on Reason," Gore denounces what he sees as today's politics of fear. Yet his own campaign of mass persuasion -- any such campaign -- is not amenable to contradiction and uncertainty. It's about fright and absolutes.
Yes, even the scientific consensus isn't consensus-y enough for Gore.
