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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
In Australia there is a common statement (amongst people I know anyway), that 87% of statistics are made up on the spot. If that figure is 97% in the United States, then my view of the matter is that 87% of Australians are more pragmatic than Americans. This is accurate at the 97% confidence level.
Thought experiment. Ten buses serve the community. Nine buses regularly carry one passenger each. One bus is full with thirty people. Interview all 39 and the vast majority will report the buses are always full to bursting. The truth is that 90% are running close to empty. Welcome to climate science.
97% of the popes are Catholic.
Carbon Commodity Marketing….is 97% racketeering….and 3% faux science.
Wamron says:
… The majority of sceptic discussion I see, quibbling over the minutiae of data and theoretical arguments …
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Just like 97% of all papers in climate science.
97% took Dr. McKenzies Menthoids with confidence!
97% of climate scientist believe that by 2100, it will be 103% that believe.
Michael Palmer:
“Wamron says:
… The majority of sceptic discussion I see, quibbling over the minutiae of data and theoretical arguments …
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Just like 97% of all papers in climate science.”
BUT……….they ALSO dominate the media, the education system, academia, politics, local government, even the higher echelons of the military. Meanwhile sceptics who piss about with trying to quote facts achieve NOTHING by doing so, have ZERO purchase on the communal agenda and will never achieve anything, until they learn that the way to influence debate is not with fact but with the representation of perception.
They dont need o be right about anything. Consequently, proving them wrong on everything, would in itself achieve precisely nothing.
97% of everyone have experienced AGW gas. The rest await the privilege…..
97% of chickens never actually get to the other side
Just like 97% of climate science never make a substantial point in the AGW belief
Just that they believe
JohnB
97% of AGW promoters avoid saying there is a 100% or 99% or 98% consensus because it would appear like to be an obviously unsupportable statement.
97% of the Geophysical Research Letters reviewers desperately believe they possess the ability of comprehension.
97% of defense contractors believe we need to invest in a stronger military.
At least 97% of alarmists can’t believe that only 0.22% of scientists (about 70 ignorant delusional fanatics who originated this garbage, vs. ~31,500 who signed the Oregon Petition, or 1 in 450, by this measure) actually believe it.
JohnB says:
May 17, 2013 at 7:32 pm
97% of chickens never actually get to the other side
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97% of the chickens trying to cross the road never reach it 97% of the time.
(thought I’d help embellish it a bit)
(Reposted from Kloor’s)
Alright, I’m going to throw some facts at you so strap in:
Fact: 97% of scientists agree that we’re going to die horrible weather related deaths. Those who survive will eat one another in a Mad Max style post-apocalyptic nightmare. This is a scientific FACT, 97% of scientists agree to this. Stop denying science, bumpkin.
Fact: 97% of scientists agree that if we don’t subsidize solar panel companies you hate science and your brain is probably incapable of thinking scientifically at all (Lewandowsky 2009)
Fact: 97% of scientists agree that the main cause of continued growth in C02 emissions is Anthony Watts and not hundreds of millions of Chinese, Indians and others who stubbornly resist returning to subsistence farming.
At Mods discretion…. JohnB reminded me of a new chicken joke.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Because North Korea’s long range missles can’t go that far.
but 97% of climate scientist think it was to escape the record high temps ….
Friends: 97% of the people who think that 97% of scientists believe the world is warming and that the cause is human emissions of CO2 believe that the ‘97% of scientists’ were counted in a valid, scientifically acceptable manner.
Bill Mollison once told me that 87% of statistics are “just made up.” In spite of the 10% difference between them, it would appear that most 97% figures are actually part of that 87%.
Tom J says: “…P.S. Don’t think she hasn’t done these kind of things to me.”
Yeah, Tom, her neighbor told me about the jalapeño ice cream prank.
Wamron, I disagree with you. The truth matters; propaganda is mighty, but not almighty. For proof, consider the Soviet empire folding like a house of cards – this did not happen for want of propaganda, and not for Ronald Reagan’s superhero powers either. It happened because people knew the truth, and when Gorbachev allowed it to be spoken, it was all over.
Our society is misguided and absurd in many ways, but it does allow us to speak the truth as we see it. Everybody who does so helps to preserve this right, and the truth to get out.
Manfred says: “‘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”
Very apropos; that’s exactly the situation we’re facing. The 97% are pretty rank.
97 % of skeptics exercise skepticism (3 % fake skeptics e.g. Skeptical Science )
97% of people think the Consensus Project logo looks like Pacman.
REPLY: I was waiting for somebody to say that. C<
-A
Wamron says:
“They dont need o be right about anything. Consequently, proving them wrong on everything, would in itself achieve precisely nothing. “
There is no need to prove the sceptics wrong, The global temperatures following the IPCC predictions will be sufficient. But, oh dear, is it that the actual temperatures are diverging below the +/- 97% level?
Gary says:
May 17, 2013 at 8:27 pm
97% of people think the Consensus Project logo looks like Pacman.
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97% of Pacmans die on the first level.