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Andre
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Some time ago I wondered about the legitimacy of the Irak war in regards to the non-existence of weapons of mass destruction. I contended that the WMD element was not a deceptive lie but merely the result of the groupthinking mechanism.
On other occasions I tried to demonstrate that some symptoms of groupthink were not alien in climate science like for instance here.
Would http://www.peterlilley.co.uk/text.aspx?id=1 [Broken] be reading the PW&A forums of PF? I see some remarkable simularities.
Global Warming as Groupthink - The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's process institutionalizes groupthink on a global scale.
So is AGW real or just another element in a long list of human behavior excesses? This list would include the revolutions and wars, anything that requires an enemy, exagarated by groupthink.
On other occasions I tried to demonstrate that some symptoms of groupthink were not alien in climate science like for instance here.
Would http://www.peterlilley.co.uk/text.aspx?id=1 [Broken] be reading the PW&A forums of PF? I see some remarkable simularities.
Global Warming as Groupthink - The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's process institutionalizes groupthink on a global scale.
and...Can so many experts be wrong? ... Then intelligence agencies around the world were allegedly so convinced that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction that we went to war, only to find—zilch. ... there was a solid foundation of truth on which enthusiastic professionals and governments constructed an exaggerated scare story that the media lapped up...
..It is clear that while governments think they are pursuing evidence-based policies, these institutes have been serving up "policy-based evidence."...
So is AGW real or just another element in a long list of human behavior excesses? This list would include the revolutions and wars, anything that requires an enemy, exagarated by groupthink.
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