Jovial Monk wrote on Apr 21
st, 2017 at 10:58am:
The SMH editorialises that there are worrying signs at the fringes of politics that an irrational and unscientific approach to policy is making inroads. We should put science at the centre of society it says. Will the SMH be branded an heretic organisation because of this?
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/putting-science-at-the-centre-of-soc...
from your reference -
"As the incoming dean at the University of NSW, Professor Emma Johnston, said in a Herald opinion piece recently: "When the world's scientists emerge from their labs and take to the streets, there must be something very important at stake." "
Yep. Their lucrative funding.
"While we are nowhere near the situation of the United States, there are worrying signs at the fringes of politics that an irrational approach to policy is making inroads. The science around climate change is a case in point. There is overwhelming scientific
consensus that at least a proportion of climate change is caused by humans."
Back to the scientific consensus.
But they do go on and admit it is only a proportion. They don't even say it is Catastrophic.
"Thanks to science, most of humanity now has the right to expect long, healthy lives, with clean, running water and guaranteed education and literacy."
Except in poor communities where greenies are pushing up the cost of electricity.