Lazar:
Now you’re ready to make a little more progress. You believe “anyone who devotes their life to increasing human knowledge is a hero.” Albert Einstein said, “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Past heroes of knowledge include aryan race theorists, phrenologists and T.D. Lysenko. I don’t believe in scientists. I believe in the superiority of the scientific method to discover truths about the physical world. Not because everything that scientists say about the world is true, but because science is, over time, self-correcting so long as scientists respect the process of science and separate political or religious (e.g., environmentalism) enthusiasms and pressures. The earth’s climate is by far the most complex phenomenon science has yet tried to tackle from a modeling perspective(says Freeman Dyson). Climate science itself is in its infancy. The greatest risk to that science today is the toxic contamination of progressive politics, symbolized by that grotesque mountebank Al Gore and others who, in unguarded moments, have been caught admitting that it’s perfectly alright to exaggerate (i.e., falsify) scientific findings to produce a favorable political climate to advance progressive legislation on the environment. These people may be heroes of knowledge to you, but they are enemies of understanding. Hence models whose alarmist predictions depend on preposterous assumptions regarding underlying parameters. Hence climate scientists and their politicized groupies resorting to ad hominem attacks on real scientists engaged in the real scientific work of testing hypotheses who discover inconvenient truths. Hence hysteria and propagandistic indoctrination of children masquerading as knowledge.