Scientific AlGorithm

I was sitting here pondering why I have increasingly lost confidence in science. Conflicting reports, specious evidence, lack of evidence, lies, obfuscations -- there is nothing some "scientists" won't engage in to prove their point. Then, of a sudden, I remembered what I had been taught about the "scientific method." Now I realize why I have always been skeptical, and after years of machinations, I have almost reached the point where I tend to reject most of what "scientists" say.

The "scientific method," my teachers said, was to think up an hypothesis and seek evidence to support it. Because I wasn't a scientist, it was not a force in my life until today, when it struck me that what is implied here is that the scientist is to reject all evidence that doesn't support his theory. That's why the prevailing "knowledge" changes so often and, as a result, I find it hard to believe any of it.

Then there's AlGore. Remember him? He lost a Presidential election and moped, blimped up, grew a beard, and disappeared into academia. Well, he's back. He has made a film about how global warming will kill us all. This is the same global warming that, as Vice President, he as unable or unwilling to do anything about. It doesn't occur to him that it might not be possible for him or anyone else to do anything about it. Remember, it's some of those "scientists" who have said that warming and cooling have been occurring for millions of years, most of the time without human intervention.