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Maggie Gallagher, writing at Real Clear Politics, also notices the UNAIDS sudden correction - downward - of worldwide AIDS numbers. She also notices the creepy fealty that is being paid to the UN - despite evidence like this of that organization's basic unreliability. She wonders at it all.

The old, false U.N. numbers were the result of an obviously bad methodology, especially in India; prevalence rates among women in urban clinics were imputed to the population as a whole, thereby oversampling AIDS-prone prostitutes, addicts and people with multiple sexual partners.

So why did the U.N. scientists go with the bad data? According to professor Chin, U.N. officials were reluctant to admit fewer people were infected because that might translate into less funding to fight AIDS, which continues to devastate millions worldwide.

They fudged the data in order to inspire the masses to good actions, in other words.

As far as I can tell, the United Nations is like just about any other large bureaucratic institution — a mixed body of people and ideals that does some good and is at least as susceptible to corruption as any other human thing. But in Europe, faith in the United Nations is reaching biblical proportions.

Which is why when the U.N. secretary-general reaches for the language of science to establish an absolute truth (global warming is a human-caused catastrophe) grounded in an obvious falsehood ("we all agree"), I find it creepy.

The statements have the form of scientific assertions, but they are clothed in a spirit of dogmatic certainty that is alien to the culture of scientific endeavor. A climate science that cannot predict the weather a month from now may have strong evidence that global warming exists, is human caused and will be a catastrophe, but it cannot possibly have yet produced a proof about which "all agree."

The true believers mouth - by rote - the delivered wisdom of the Al Gores of the world. (Despite the fact that his movie has been proven to be wrong in court and despite his obvious economic interest in the acceptance of his theories.) They loudly proclaim that anyone who raises a question "doesn't understand the science." The vast majority of the true believers could not explain how the computers they use work or how energy is delivered to their homes. They do not understand how cell phones work or how a fiber-optic cable conducts data. They do not understand the technology that makes their lives so comfortable, but they claim to completely understand the science of a vast global system of almost infinite complexity so thoroughly that they can predict the precise global temperature at 8 PM on a Tuesday in May 40 years hence.

Anyone else see the problem here?

This belief is not science. It is a faith, no, not even that. It is dogma, a prescribed doctrine delivered and learned by rote with no real understanding. Are there scientists who firmly believe in AGW? Certainly. Are there equally reputable scientists who do not? Yes there are. That is how science works. It is not forced into compliance with the faith. Or hasn't been since the Inquisition went into retirement. More and more, however, the true believers are looking more and more like Torquemada, aren't they?

There is blind acceptance of the "wisdom" of the United Nations on global warming. Despite repeated evidence of massive corruption, total ineptitude, fraud and manipulative behavior on the part of that organization. That is not even dogma. That descends into cult-like behavior. That is willful blindness to all of the evidence that this is an organization not to be trusted at its word. Willful blindness leads people into very, very bad decisions.

I have linked, repeatedly, to articles from all over that describe the obscenities being done to the earth in the name of "fixing" global warming. Rainforests incinerated, orangutans eradicated, humans put on glorified hamster wheels. All done in the name of saving the earth. It is not time to end the debate. It is time to have an intelligent one not ruled by a twisted dogma delivered by a false priest and facilitated through blind acceptance of delivered wisdom from a corrupt organization.