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Heh, this is from a commenter at Slashdot on Cook’s fatally flawed 97% consensus paper. While a bit harsh, it’s also funny. He responds to:
Yeah! It’s like saying that 97% of priests believe in god anyway.
by Razgorov Prikazka (1699498) on Friday May 17, 2013 @11:52AM (#43753313) says:
I agree, and it goes further than just priests! Here are some interesting factoids for you:
97% of the children believe in Santa
97% of paranoid believe they are being followed
97% of the homoeopaths believe in homoeopathy
97% of the astrologists believe in astrology
97% of the KKK think lynchmobs are a good thing
97% of the intelligent design gang are absolutely convinced that God made it all
97% of all the interviewed Zen buddists were convinced it is possible to clap with one hand
97% of the paganist movement think sandals are fashionable
97% of the physicians didnt believe in washing their hands before doing surgery
97% of the politicians think they are doing some great things
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I’ve added a few.
97% of dogs believe in hanging their noses out car windows
97% of cats believe in long naps
97% of Playboy models believe in taking all their clothes off
97% of cooks believe in cooking with heat (the rest are sushi chefs)
Readers are welcome to add to the list
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97% of elected officials don’t ever lie.
97% of climate scientists are not going to get audited by the IRS.
The other 3%, well…
The way temperatures have been going, I don’t think even God believes in Global Warming. Certainly not anthropogenic global warming.
And if God’s a practicing skeptic, what side of the argument does that leave Cook?
Hmmmm…….. “cook”……… “heat”…….. “Godless”……. hmmmmm…
You draw your own conclusions, but I know which way I’d send him.
I thought 97% of all statistics are made up. 🙂
An adaptation of John Cook’s Escalator graph “how realists view global warming”
http://i39.tinypic.com/72f7n4.jpg
Extrapolating Cook’s 97% survey result to the ‘survey data’ in the graph, a new single question survey can be devised:
“97% of global warming is caused by scientists writing abstracts on articles promoting AGW” ( true / false )
There should be sufficient information in the image to allow you to reproduce it from the given UN/IPCC friendly data sources in a matter of minutes. Have fun and enjoy
97% of climate scientists would be out of a job if there wasn’t a global warming problem.
97% of idiots don’t realize they are idiots
Again…SEMMELWEISS. There would have been 100% consensus that microbes had no effect on disease but for that single, solitary scientist. Once he had died and his experimental data forgotten, then indeed that consensus was 100% for several years.
97% of watermelons are green on the outside and red on the inside.
97% of climate scientists live a life they condemn others for living.
97% of scientists agree that voting is not a reliable way to ascertain truth.
In a survery 33% of priests said they believed in God, and 64% didn’t deny they believed in God
No matter how carefully crafted a project schedule is, the first 97% of the work takes 97% of the planned time. The remaining 3% takes another 97% of the time.
My wife feeds 97% of the cats in the neighbourhood, and 100% of the cats like her.
“97% of Playboy models believe in taking all their clothes off”
And 97% of Playboy readers agree!
The rest read the braille edition. 🙂
97.1% of trees can’t tell the temperature.
97% sounds like a made-up number.
It tends toward the extreme, yet leaves room for a hasty exit.
I can think of a lot of old marketing commercials for toothpaste, deodorant, and other consumer goods that used 97% of some DDS, MDs, or pharmacists or other profession in agreement with the superior product. being promoted.
Also, 97% of EPA employees believe in AGW and the others are up for the firing squad.
‘The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane’.
Marcus Aurelius Augustus
97% of people think the trout population in the Wallowa River has gone down over the past 7 years. And I likely had something to do with that.
Saying 97% of climate papers agree is like saying 97% agree do-do stinks.
This is made all the more amazing by only 3% of reality agreeing with the results of the 97% of global warming papers.
97% of AGW scientists, activists and hacks believe that 97% of scientists endorse and embrace AGW.
I want to be a nonconformist just like 97% of all the other nonconformists.