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Originally Posted by GreenSpartan
Public opinion is irrelevant to the quality of the science.
You're talking about a public where 45% are essentially young earth creationists. A public where less than a third can identify DNA as the mechanism of heredity and 20% think the sun revolves around the earth. I'm sure Cym has a lot more examples at his fingertips.
Given those data, it is any wonder that a 20 yr PR campaign funded with millions and millions of dollars has been very successful? I'm not surprised one iota.
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Clearly the science is far from conclusive. Besides that you can't get anything accomplished from a govt stand-point unless the public supports it. So unless you believe that science is the only thing that counts..it really doesn't matter what science says unless you have public support to get policies enacted. At this rate the public opinion that 'doesn't matter' is moving farther and farther away from agreeing that anything should be done.
From a very practical stand-point public opinion counts more than anything else..Green you should understand this.