"Post-Normal Science:" Lysenkoism By Any Other Name

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The analogy to Pascal's Wager is right--and the analogy fails. For one thing: PW requires infinite payoffs. The reference to the Precautionary Principle: also right. We could add: Cheney's "zero tolerance" anti-terrorism position. 

This is really my objection to climate pseudoscience: I'm willing to act on real conclusions really supported by real science. But that's not what we're dealing with--to a great extent, anyway--from the pomo-prog left. The irrationalist philosophical ideas at the heart of the thing gets its tendrils into everything.