Oh here we go...

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As good an excuse as any to a. interfere with peoples lives even more b. tax your steak dinner

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-2900...

Watch this space.

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turbobloke said:

technogogo said:

becomes, eventually, accepted fact

What emerges is contingent 'fact', anything axiomatic is in at the start.

If what emerges (data) refutes a hypothesis then it must be rejected or modified.

My OH is a scientist - she actually deals with toxicological effects of agrochemicals and so on.

Not getting into the "man made" aspect of this, but the government seems very keen to introduce policy and taxation* based upon some very very dodgy bad science - as she said "if I was to present studies with the same kind of evidence, I'd lose my job".

• on a related note - I'm loving old Boris - charge those nasty polluting diesels. Oh - can I have a new airport. These people are taking the piss.