The Left's Love Affair with Pseudoscience

James Lewis, writing in the American Thinker, talks about the left's fascination with global warming. He reminds us of how marxist economics was once considered scientific

Modern science fraud seems to come from the Left, which makes it especially weird because the Left claims to be all in favor of science. Marxism itself was a scientific fraud, of course. In 1848 Marx and Engels claimed to have a "scientific" (wissenschaftlich) theory of history. They predicted that communism would first arise in England, because it was the most advanced capitalist nation. (Not) They predicted that centralized planning would work. (Not) They predicted that the peasants and workers would dedicate their lives to the Socialist State, and stop caring about themselves and their families. (Not). They predicted that sovietization would lead to greater economic performance. (Not). And then, when seventy years of Soviet, Chinese, Eastern European, and North Korean history showed Marx's predictions to be wrong, wrong and wrong again, they still claimed to be "scientific." That's pathological science --- fraud masquerading as science.

The left have always hated capitalism, because some 'geniuses proved' that it was doomed to fail, in spite of the decades of evidence that it is the only economic system to have accomplished any growth whatsoever. Likewise, human CO2 emissions must be causing global warming. We know this because a 'broad consensus of scientists' have shown this to be 'true'. And of course the left's solution to this imminent catastrophe is to place industry under the control of government!