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Emit

(11,213 posts)
Thu Sep 26, 2013, 12:07 AM Sep 2013

Here are a few things that scientists are just as or less certain of than climate change:

Things Scientists Are Less Sure of Than Climate Change

... Seth Borenstein, the Associated Press's science correspondent, has given us a fine barometer by which to measure the scientific certainty that humans are heating the planet. He reports that the world's climatologists are now gearing up to officially proclaim that they are 95 percent certain that humans are to blame for global warming.

That 5 percent gap may seem large. It is not. In science, nothing is 100 percent sure—not even the law of gravity.

According to Borenstein, here are a few things that scientists are just as or less certain of than climate change:
•that cigarettes kill
•the age of the universe
•that vitamins make you healthy
•that dioxin in Superfund sites is dangerous

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http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/things-scientists-are-less-sure-of-than-climate-change


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Here are a few things that scientists are just as or less certain of than climate change: (Original Post) Emit Sep 2013 OP
Unfortunately, most Republians would say scientists are wrong about at least thre of those items. Agnosticsherbet Sep 2013 #1

Agnosticsherbet

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1. Unfortunately, most Republians would say scientists are wrong about at least thre of those items.
Thu Sep 26, 2013, 12:48 AM
Sep 2013

I know a lot of Republicans that take vitamins. The rest they would see as a liberal plot to take away their freedoms.

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