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Comment author: rortian 26 November 2009 03:22:21AM -1 points [-]

Just so we are clear: What do you think about climate science?

It is important to remember that most of its work was before it was political. Just because energy (mainly coal and oil) companies don't like the policy implications of climate science and are willing to pay lots of people to speak ill of it, shouldn't make it a politicized science. Indeed this would place evolutionary biology into the highly politicized science category.

Allowing a subject's ideological enemies to have a say in its status without having hard evidence is not rational at all.

Comment author: SilasBarta 26 November 2009 08:44:20PM 1 point [-]

I replied to your point about evolutionary biology here.