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But surely history has been given some spin here. If we had kept on feeding mashed up infected cows to other cows and then carried on eating stock from the herd, while not cleaning up the NHS's act w.r.t. cleanliness etc, then the situation could have been much more serious.
'The Scientists' predicted a possible health disaster, action was taken and nothing happened.
So, do we say:
'Well done all round'
or do we say:
'What a waste of money?'
Do we praise those involved for a job well done or condemn them for scaremongering?
And AGW is an even harder case to push. The advice we are being offered is to take action now to ameliorate a potential problem in 50 years time. So you have to ask do you trust the scientists or not? And its seems that most don't.
Which is a worrying trend, because it does seem to be a trend.
Creationism as an extreme example, AGW as the example under question here, the Swine Flu vaccine is another area where 'The Population' have turned away from trusting science, the rise of homeopathy and numerous other examples can be evoked. |
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