Friday, October 12, 2007
A Still Inconvenient Truth
Trust the Daily Mail to decide that climate change is news the day after An Inconvenient Truth was "slammed" in court for making scientifically unproven claims. To put the judgement into context, although the work was described as being "broadly accurate", in Justice Burton's opinion nine out of the hundreds of assertions made by Gore could not be fully substantiated by current scientific knowledge (though, as the wording of the judgement makes clear, none can be fully disproved either). I wonder what would happen if the same strict approach was applied to the teaching of religion in schools...
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