Your tax dollars at work

NASA is fudging numbers to create the perception of global warming -- a statistical illusion!

This illustrates a very simple principle: If I get to say what counts as evidence, I will never lose the argument, since I can automatically disallow any evidence that you offer in contradiction.

That little game is beloved by self-important "experts," who love to belittle the common-sense arguments offered by ordinary people: "What do you know? You're not an expert!"

There is such a thing as real expertise. But real experts are not usually hostile to evidence the way the global-warming fanatics are.