<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Political wonks everywhere feel the electricity!]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by step back http://www.grist.org/article/al-gore-to-testify-to-both-houses-of-congress-tomorrow/ Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:04:12 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/al-gore-to-testify-to-both-houses-of-congress-tomorrow/1 It should be a hoot

Here's my 2 cents before the fire works start.

Most politicians are lawyers.
In the law business there is an unspoken Grand Unification Model.
It goes like this:
Every "debate" contains the following basic elements:
The human decision maker(s) {Jury or judge},
The advocate for the proposition, and
The advocate against the proposition (aka the other lawyer).

After the advocates finish making noises (aka, presenting "evidence" and arguments), the decision maker declares the "debate" to be finished and the decision maker declares one of the advocates as being the "winner" and the other as being the "loser".

Politicians demand that every "debate" follow this format. (They can't see it happening in any other way.)

Of course, in science the whole idea of a debate being 100% over and any scientific model being declared as the 100% correct and unquestionable one is preposterous.

Hence, politicians and scientists constantly talk past one one another. They never truly communicate under a common model of how the "debate" Universe works.





]]> It should be a hoot

Here's my 2 cents before the fire works start.

Most politicians are lawyers.
In the law business there is an unspoken Grand Unification Model.
It goes like this:
Every "debate" contains the following basic elements:
The human decision maker(s) {Jury or judge},
The advocate for the proposition, and
The advocate against the proposition (aka the other lawyer).

After the advocates finish making noises (aka, presenting "evidence" and arguments), the decision maker declares the "debate" to be finished and the decision maker declares one of the advocates as being the "winner" and the other as being the "loser".

Politicians demand that every "debate" follow this format. (They can't see it happening in any other way.)

Of course, in science the whole idea of a debate being 100% over and any scientific model being declared as the 100% correct and unquestionable one is preposterous.

Hence, politicians and scientists constantly talk past one one another. They never truly communicate under a common model of how the "debate" Universe works.





]]> Comment #2 by amazingdrx http://www.grist.org/article/al-gore-to-testify-to-both-houses-of-congress-tomorrow/ Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:05:13 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/al-gore-to-testify-to-both-houses-of-congress-tomorrow/2 Go get 'em Al!

Spring equinox "dirty hippie" prayers to mother earth going out into the universe to help your effort.  Hehey.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

]]> Go get 'em Al!

Spring equinox "dirty hippie" prayers to mother earth going out into the universe to help your effort.  Hehey.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

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