A Modest Proposal

[Bob Schroeck]

Right. It's not about evidence, it's about ideology ("the other side is in favor, therefore I must oppose"), or religion ("God would never allow man to damage the world like that!", which was also a serious argument fifty years ago against pollution control). Or it's about being too frightened of the implications (for either the future or your worldview), so you refuse to believe the evidence; therefore the evidence must be false, no matter how much of it there is or how little sense a hoax makes. For entirely too many people, maybe almost all people, comforting self-delusion is preferable to a terrifying truth, and this is the terrifying truth they choose to deny.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.