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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Let's EXPEL the LNT-Deniers!

The radiation LNT-deniers share many of the same behaviors as global warming deniers and evolutionary biology deniers.  They don't understand the details of the evidence, and when you give them a good reference explaining the science they don't read it. 

They just "know" the report is wrong.

Whether it be BEIR VII, IPCC WG 1, or a National Academy of Sciences Report (similar to a BEIR report) on evolutionary biology. 

Here is a talk by Dr. Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education explaining the similarities between evolutionary biology deniers and g.w. deniers:









Did you notice how Cohen & Calabrese (from yesterday's blog) seek media attention?  That is what discredited scientists do.  Their peers recognize their science sucks, so they seek to sucker others who lack expertise.  Good scientists enjoy battling their peers...it is their peers they want to convince.  Convincing someone lacking expertise isn't challenging. 

Another tactic is to write op-eds for newspapers or produce pseudo-documentaries.  One such documentary regarding evolution denialism was called "Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed".  Here's the trailer from that movie:



See the similarities....the bad scientist is oppressed by the "establishment" or the "status quo" or there's a grand conspiracy.  When really, a bad scientist is a bad scientist.  And so EXPECT the LNT deniers to do the same thing, and expect they will get a cult (HA!) following.

(It's funny because some good scientists were tricked into appearing on Expelled.  They never would've knowingly participated in it.  When they went to an initial screening to voice their protest...they were expelled from the screening!!  You just can't make this stuff up!)

The LNT deniers ask that we question LNT and consider hormesis (we've done it for decades!).

Should we question sex theory?:


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