I am often called unscientific and a climate change denier
by those who don’t even know about prior warmer periods: the Eemian, only
125,000 years ago, and the Holocene, Minoan, Roman, and Medieval within the
past 10,000 years.
I thought of the unscientific left when I read an article in
the Press Democrat about Sebastopol opposing fluoride in drinking water. The
American Dental Association says that water fluoridation is “the single most
effective public health measure to prevent dental decay,” and world and US
health organizations all support it.
Also endorsed by prestigious world and US science and health
organizations, and opposed by many northern California liberals: geneticallymodified organisms (GMO) and immunizations.
Supported by those same liberals, although debunked by
scientific and health organizations: natural supplements; organics; complementaryand alternative medicine such as homeopathy, acupuncture, and chiropractic.
None of the purported benefits of these alternatives are supported by rigorous
scientific studies. "There is really no such thing as alternative
medicine, just medicine that works and medicine that doesn't."
For example, a recent Stanford study found that organic food
is no more nutritious than food grown using pesticides and chemicals – and
won’t benefit your health.
Fracking is moving the US towards energy independence, reviving
manufacturing, and actually reducing CO2 emissions compared to non-fracking
Europe. Nuclear energy, such as could be provided by liquid fluoride thorium reactors – which do not produce weapons-grade materials or long-life nuclear
waste – would answer all the requirements for inexpensive, reliable,
non-polluting energy that environmentalists desire, and which wind and solar
won’t, yet liberals are afraid of a phantom, not the reality, of the next
generation of nuclear energy.
As they text while driving and sipping bottled water,
causing accidents and environmental damage, they wallow in self-adulation.
