# Socialism, Christianism and humanism

**URL:** <https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/socialism-christianism-and-humanism/10549>\
**Category:** Politics and Social Issues\
**Created:** [November 19, 2023, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/socialism-christianism-and-humanism/10549 "2023-11-19T12:59:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 6:09am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/socialism-christianism-and-humanism/10549/101 "2023-12-06T06:09:18Z")

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@coffee I move the socialism topic here.

> [@How to respond to subtil science denial?](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/how-to-respond-to-subtil-science-denial/10581/6):
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> And there are rogue scientists who arm the ignorant masses with doubt (E.g., Fred and Russell Seitz, and Fred Singer) as their articles would appear in business journals whose readers were all about free-markets and no government intervention. During the Reagan administration, it was frowned upon to mention acid rain just as George W, Bush didn’t want to hear about global warming. Think tanks like the CATO institute paid these scientists to publish misleading articles.

I think climate change is a difficulty for free-market theorists, it is a big new horse on which to ride for communists and socialists.

After the poor working class (they killed by millions), after the poor minorities (they destroyed inner cities and _banlieues_), now poor Nature. If we follow communist and socialist plans on economy at a global scale, literally billions of people will die, and it will not save Nature, because it is in undeveloped economies where pollution and destruction of nature is the most serious.

> [@How to respond to subtil science denial?](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/how-to-respond-to-subtil-science-denial/10581/6):
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> Think tanks like the CATO institute paid these scientists to publish misleading articles.

I don’t buy in the way this sentence is worded.

That big companies pay scientists to protect their interests, this is a fact, and the examples are extremely numerous, apparently especially in the US, where there is kind of a free-market, at least more than in France.

But the Cato Institute is another thing, they develop and intellectual framework, you cannot confuse everything.

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