If You Are Wrong The First Time, And The Second Time – Keep Making The Lie Bigger And Bigger

10 Responses to If You Are Wrong The First Time, And The Second Time – Keep Making The Lie Bigger And Bigger

1. suyts says:

   March 25, 2011 at 6:08 pm

   And, it is amazingly effective.

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2. glacierman says:

   March 25, 2011 at 6:09 pm

   It’s not a lie if a climate model predicts it…….at least that is way things work these days.

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   • suyts says:

     March 25, 2011 at 6:32 pm

     Exactly. Another amazing aspect of the climate discussion is the models themselves. Our scientists seem to think, or at least wish us to believe, that the models are some sort of Artificial Intelligence.

     When a scientist says our model predicts X, I’m driven mad! The model did no such thing. It simply regurgitates an answer it was programmed to regurgitate.

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     • Dave G says:

       March 25, 2011 at 7:08 pm

       They just keep digging LOL

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3. omnologos says:

   March 25, 2011 at 6:20 pm

   Wait….it IS a surefire way to be right, at some point. Not even an astrologer can be wrong every single time.

   Think of that poor guy in the early 1990s predicting the stock market would crash at 5,000, then at 6,000, then at 7,000 etc etc: well, one day it really crashed, and am sure there is somebody out there thinking he’s an infallible predictor of what happens to the stock market.

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   • suyts says:

     March 25, 2011 at 6:36 pm

     Yeh, I get a kick out the “market gurus”. When ever I see one on TV or get an add of some sort, my question is, are they doing at least as well as Warren Buffet?

     The trick to the market is anticipating where the mega rich are going to put their money, and then anticipating when they’re going to move it again.

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4. Al Gored says:

   March 25, 2011 at 6:41 pm

   If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

   Joseph Goebbels

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5. Anything is possible says:

   March 25, 2011 at 7:50 pm

   “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it”

   Adolf Hitler

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6. Andy Weiss says:

   March 25, 2011 at 9:22 pm

   Lots of long noses out there getting even longer by the minute.

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7. Brian H says:

   March 25, 2011 at 9:47 pm

   Re: (Mar 25 18:09),
   Keep referring to the motto of this site; Feynman: “Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts.” And the models are “projections” of the opinions of truly ignorant experts.

   So far, they’re doing a fine job of demonstrating said ignorance!

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