Hi Sam:
Good to hear from you. As they say, "Don't be a stranger."
> (I've started to read some different things as well, eg Thomas
> Sowell's 'The Vision of the Anointed' - Platt and Rog would enjoy that I
> think, if they're not already familiar with it).
I've heard about it and it's on my list of "to get" books. Thanks for the
recommendation.
> I daydream about emigrating to the US (if I end up pursuing an academic
> career, it will almost certainly be in the US).
Please let us know when you arrive!
> Has anyone else here read 'The Fourth Turning' by Strauss and Howe? My
> pro-US sympathies aren't stopping me seeing that it is presently going down
> a very dark road, and that book put flesh on some intuitions. In
> particular, Bush's 'axis of evil' speech was playing into the mutual
> escalation that they describe.
Haven't heard of this book, but "axis of evil" is merely a statement of the
obvious. Sometimes the truth hurts. Liberals cringed when Reagan
called Communist Russia an "evil empire." Now where is it?
> One last point, about the science thread - anyone else here following the
> furore caused by Bjorn Lomborg's book on environmentalism? Seems like the
> scientific culture is just as open to abuse as any other....
Yes, I'm following the furor as best I can. "Junk" science is a well-
known phenomenon of which radical environomentalists are
especially fond. Another whistle-blower on global warming scare-
mongers is Professor Richard S. Lindzen of MIT who testified before
Congress about the politically driven work of the UN Panel on Climate
Change, specifically its pattern of misrepresenting the work of its
contributing scientist to fit a preconceived agenda. He denounced the
notion that a scientific consensus has been reached about global
warming.
Of course, his testimony will be "deconstructed" by our liberal friends
as simply more evidence of oppression by Victorian white males. (-:
Platt
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