Giant iceberg splits from Antarctica {Gadling}

Feb 27th 2010 11:56AM I'm always shocked to read posts from seemingly intelligent people who lack objectivity and honesty. I've always believed that education and intelligence are power in this world; they always have been. And it shocks me to read or hear ignorant, prejudiced, unreasonable assertions that come more from the heart than the brain. I suspect that in most cases these unfortunate individuals were reared with these personal biases at a young age and have retained and nurtured those biases through one-sided internet searches and biased readings. Don't you people realize that a bias of any kind isn't something to be proud of? It's a barrier keeping you from the honest pursuit of the truth and there's nothing more liberating than that.

The very notion that the pursuit of truth and knowledge through the use of scientific hypothesis, testing and peer group review is anything even remotely akin to a witch hunt is preposterous and irrational. In fact, the "witches" of the past were probably the scientists of the past, outnumbered by the average and stupid and too proud to keep their intelligent beliefs to themselves. These people were killed for thinking outside the box and there's nothing even remotely close to this happening on either side of the green/religious or left/right divide.

We've moved past that in most of the G8 nations. Drop the bias and consider the possibility that billions of human beings collectively are acting like a virus/ant farm to a planet that was in balance before we came along, over procreated and were forced to develop scientific measures to overcome mass disease, drought, famine and a warming climate. You laugh at science in one sentence and yet you'll turn to it this summer to air condition your home. Quit being hypocrites, people. The scientific community has extended lives, cured diseases, heated homes, cooled homes, built vehicles, put human beings on the moon. Trust that the best and brightest amongst us have all of our best interests at heart and quit suspecting the worst and looking for conspiracy theories. You're wasting your lives frustrated, fearful and ill informed. It's never to late to find the truth.