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FOOI #11: Listen to the experts, they know their stuff

24 Oct 05:00am

Filed under: Carbon Tax, Experts, Festival Of Obvious Ideas, Global Warming, Media

I remember vividly a very long (and unbelievably frustrating) conversation I once had with someone who was genuinely convinced that he was “playing it safe” by not wearing a seatbelt whilst driving.

Experts commonly have beards like this.

I told this man that seatbelts are one of the most simple-yet-effective life-saving devices ever invented in modern societies, and, backed-up by mountains of independent research, any road safety expert will tell you that you’re crazy not to wear one every time you get in a car.

But, this clown thought that the experts were “idiots”, and that he knew better.

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Don says:

09:11am | 10/11/11

Flannery is a con man of the highest order, read this .http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2006/s1844398.htm An interview on the ABCs landline, this is bullshit in disguise of scientific opinion. This guy should never be listened to again. Read more »
Obob says:

11:46am | 01/11/11

Hey James, you said “I don’t recall Tim Flannery every saying continuous drought, where did he say that would occur?” Let me refresh your memory ... Professor Flannery, who is the director of the South Australian Museum, has told ABC TV’s Lateline that global warming is threatening Australia’s chance of… Read more »

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