In Scientia Veritas

First watch the Crazy Sprinkler Lady video. Phil also wrote about it some time ago. It was then that I learned of the evils of dehydrogen monoxide OMFG!!!!!

And now… now I found this:

It reminds me of this class I took last semester with Prof. Reiner Kümmel, Thermodynamics and Economy. As you can tell from the name, it had a lot to do with energy policies, it was so much more a class about politics than physics, which in a way was a freshening and totally new to me. The point is that there I learned even more how so many people and governments who are mostly not scientifically literate make stupid decisions, because they are not well informed or choose the wrong sources of information. The world would be so much better if governments would seek the help of actual scientists. Phil thinks the same:

Crichton makes claims about being a scientist himself. He has a book out on denying global warming, and advised President Bush on it. James Hansen, an actual climate scientist, couldn’t see Bush, but a guy who wrote about the work other people did got an audience. It’s a crazy world.

Take for example global warming (YES, it’s happening) and peak oil (YES, oil production has peaked).

In this case is the use of ominous technical words that frighten people into thinking something as harmless as water is gonna kill’em. As Penn said,

[the video] does show that maybe they are not so much environmentalists as they are joiners… of anything.

Stupid hippies