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Scientific illiteracy clouds climate-change politics

The most disappointing thing about the small number of political leaders denying the science of climate change is that it reveals the extent of scientific illiteracy in America. Today big businesses that profit from our failure to halt CO2 emissions deny the science of climate change the same way that big tobacco challenged science that linked smoking to lung cancer decades ago.

Everyone with a high school education should know that skepticism — research aimed at disproving findings substantiated by rigorously researched hypotheses — is built into the process of scientific inquiry. The best science aims to disprove or “falsify” a strong hypothesis — almost none of our scientific knowledge has a 100 percent probability of being true. Statistically, findings with probabilities above 95 percent are treated as knowledge that should be acted on as true.

Franke Wilmer of Bozeman represents House District 64.

Full Story: http://www.billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/editorial/gazette-opinion/article_cc96164c-f749-11de-b7f9-001cc4c03286.html

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