Quote Originally Posted by CitizenCain View Post
No, I wouldn't, because they haven't had any successes.

"Public awareness" hasn't stopped the slash and burn agriculture which is destroying the rainforests, nor has what little legislation exists on the issue. In fact, nothing's stopped it - it's still going on.

However, the asshats who predicted the rainforests would all be gone by 2010 based their predictions on the rate of deforestation... as calculated, based on satellite photos... of smoke (from the burning of the cut down rainforests). Surprisingly to everyone, smoke expands rather rapidly, so the rate of deforestation was an order of magnitude or two higher than predicted by the so called "scientists" researching rainforest deforestation. (I can't bring myself to call someone a scientist when they don't know that smoke expands, so I put it in quotations.)
One big problem is that people who shout the loudest and the most shocking get all the attention, especially if there's politics involved.


It had nothing to do with the scientific method, and everything to do with mistakes that wouldn't be tolerated from a student in any stats 101 class.
That's bullshit. You should know that any stats 101 class student is still crap at statistics, too, hardly anyone does it right Don't know about the actually issue so I wouldn't know why they changed the hypothesis.