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I don't have a problem with forecasting problems and trying to deal with them. And particularly I understand the publics' slowness and 'thickness' on problems that seem particularly urgent. So as to that aspect of what you describe, we agree. There is room for a variety of perspectives, and some of them are, as you say, on the same side. However, I think there is more to it. What is taking place is the dissemination of junk science. Period. I wont speculate as to motives, but the results are: 1) people that do not have complete facts on which to base decisions and 2) people who are being induced to think even more emotionally about a problem they are already emotionally invested in.

Now to me, those two elements smack of the same kind of sheep-dip thinking that keeps getting us into shit-pot places like Iraq.