"Tom P" wrote in message
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Benj wrote:
On Apr 25, 10:22 am, Sam Wormley wrote:

Some background on Global Climate Change

Actually Sam means "some propaganda and clever lies on AGW"...

[Snip crap propaganda]

You seriously mean that every college textbook on climate science is
propaganda?
Oh well.

College text books are a combination of 11, 12 and 13, 16 and 17.
As such they are no better as a source of fact than any other. Oh
****ing well.


Wackypedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_proof
lists:


1 Direct proof
2 Proof by induction
3 Proof by transposition
4 Proof by contradiction
5 Proof by construction
6 Proof by exhaustion
7 Probabilistic proof
8 Combinatorial proof
9 Nonconstructive proof
10 Elementary proof

Not included:

11 Proof by "everybody knows" (proof by popular opinion).
12 Proof by "because I say so" (proof by assertion).
13 Proof by "it is written" (proof by appeal to authority).
14 Proof by "you prove it isn't!" (proof by simple denial).
15 Proof by "what about the tooth fairy?"(proof by irrelevance).
16 Proof by "I'm smarter than you, so there!" (proof by bluster).
17 Proof by "read a text book" (proof by bluster revision 2).

and the ultimate counter proof:

18 Proof by "You're'n'asshole!" (proof by ad hominem attack).


Proof 18 is my favorite, I use it often. It is very effective when used
against proofs 11-17. Fight fire with fire, I say. Proofs 1-10 have me
defeated, they prevent me from using proofs 11-17 and I have to bite
the bullet and embarrass myself to win the argument (which I must do
at all costs upon pain of death by diarrhea of the verbal kind).