- 16 Feb 2019 13:54
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AGW is basically an American thing. Americans want to keep their gas-guzzlers but at the same time don't want to lose their sense of moral superiority, so they come up with AGW.
You can't capture an entire field of science, it's far too decentralized for that. It's far easier to capture American national policy and pretend that science has been captured.
Sivad wrote:That seems totally preposterous until you realize that it's already been done with most of our major institutions. Capture is a well established phenomenon that really does occur, there's a shit-ton of scholarship on it. The media has definitely been captured, electoral politics is undeniably captured, and regulatory capture is also a big problem in the US. So given that, the capture of one field of science isn't exactly a stretch. In fact it's only rational to expect that every field of science that impacts national policy would have been immediately targeted for capture by the special interests.
You can't capture an entire field of science, it's far too decentralized for that. It's far easier to capture American national policy and pretend that science has been captured.