Lawrence Journal-World opinion section

To the editor:

Professor Krishtalka pillories conservatives and the GOP for not bowing to the scientific “facts,” not accepting that “science” has the answers for the world (Journal-World, May 5). He would have us accept those “facts” without question. Maybe he’ll explain why three-fourths of the papers that had to be recanted from scientific journals (mainly from the U.S., Germany and Japan) were due to fraud over the last decade.  

Are these “god-like” messengers lying to us? Is there an outside agenda? Are they just trying to keep their well-paying jobs? Who has funded their research? Is there a conspiracy to push this agenda on us?  

He uses the same vilifying tactics that liberal progressives use to silence any challenge. Yet, does not explain the data manipulations and discrepancies in computer modelling that are being used to predict this dire future. Change is always happening: The sudden drying of the lakes that fed the Nile may have doomed the great Egyptian civilization. Antarctica was once a lush forest. The mini-Ice Age chilled and froze Europe. Volcanoes have altered climate patterns.  

How much faith should we put in the “facts” as presented by the new religion? Are we, mere mortals, supposed to bow down to the unquestioned authority of science? Science may be able to chart the changes in our world and point to factors in that change, but is it the “all-knowing” force to be blindly accepted? Following the president to cut off and stifle dissent is not the mantra I will adhere to.