The Like/Hate Thread

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Actually, it completely works.

I guess opinion was the wrong way to put it, the majority of scientists agree that the facts point to humans having a significant effect on the warming of the planet. Where as the "Fringe" scientists believe that is not the case.

The point is, Vad was misrepresenting the consensus among experts.

Edit: Here is an article about Fringe Science for you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_science

I agree with your statement, I'm just saying that going along with something "because the majority says so" is not a valid reason. Going along with it because you have looked at the evidence is. The problem is that a lot of people eat up what Fox News says because they somehow manage to make two claims at once, those being that "most people (sometimes using an actual percentage) think" while then saying "we're the victimized minority here" regarding the same topic. You can't be both, yet they think so. Numerous times their percentages that they use are from a very specific source that is so skewed from what the rest of the sources state that they then cover this by saying "EVERYONE BUT US IS LYING/BIASED". Then people tend to neglect to look into the statistics and see for themselves where they come from and what their own sources were.

Like when taxes were raised only for those making a specific amount or higher, which amounted to something like 5% of the actual American people, and yet somehow their viewers (and the Tea Party) were running around crying that the Obama Monster had raised taxes for at least 85% of the people. Because apparently that many people make over that number that the taxes were raised from (which he himself fell into, as in he personally paid a very large amount of taxes). The rest of the people got a tax CUT, which apparently equated to higher taxes, according to Fox News.

I loved the video where someone interviewed Tea Party members too and one lady was in a dead serious expression while staring at the guy saying "Did you know that Obama is trying to ban fishing? FISHING." And then widens her eyes and grins like "I MEAN SERIOUSLY WOW". Because someone probably told her he was and she suddenly believed it, having not looked for said bill herself.