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1. StephenR

   Posted October 22, 2008 at 10:45 AM

   Wacky! Took about a minute to realise that it wasn’t a humourous release from the ACT party, but more of a parody of denier-alist-ers.

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2. Bucolic Old Sir Henry

   Posted October 22, 2008 at 10:57 AM

   Took about a minute…

   You’re slow this morning…

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3. StephenR

   Posted October 22, 2008 at 11:12 AM

   “You’re slow this morning… ”

   Bah! I thought they were making a ‘it’s all gibberish science mumbo jumbo’ point, but as it turned out they weren’t up to that. I’ll just leave that to the odd Republican:

   RIVERS: “…[W]hat I was asking about is peer-reviewed articles [by] scientists who are…doing this work on a regular basis. Can you give me an example of some peer-reviewed publications that you consulted in formulating your opinion that there’s no [sound] science?

   DOOLITTLE: “Well, you’re going to hear from one of the scientists today, Dr. Fred Singer.”

   RIVERS: “Dr. Singer doesn’t publish in peer-reviewed documents.”

   DOOLITTLE: “[I]‘m not going to get involved in a mumbo-jumbo of peer-reviewed documents. There’s a politics within the scientific community, where they’re all too intimidated to speak out once someone has staked out a position…And under this Congress, we’re going to get to the truth and not just the academic politics.”

   RIVERS: “[T]he general way to feel certain that you’re getting good science is that you put your ideas out in a straightforward way in a peer-reviewed publication and you allow others who are doing the same work to make comments, to criticize, to replicate your findings. And what I’m asking you, in your search for good science, is what peer-reviewed documentation did you use to come up with your decision? What good science did you rely on?”

   DOOLITTLE: “My response to you is, it is the proponents of the ban that have the burden of producing the good science. I do not have that burden.”

   It’s a great piece of dialogue (which i need no excuse to pull out), albeit from 1998 and about the ozone hole.

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4. eredwen

   Posted October 22, 2008 at 11:25 AM

   Fabulous!

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5. Kevyn

   Posted October 22, 2008 at 12:49 PM

   Surely this is India’s new national anthem

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6. katie

   Posted October 22, 2008 at 6:42 PM

   OMG, that is the funniest animation I’ve seen in a while!

   … and my flatmate does animation!

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