New Study : Proximity to Frakking Increases Birth Defects!

Why do you suppose this is politically motivated? Because you don't agree with it because of your own political bias?

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You can't check mate on a logical fallacy.. You made the claim, so don't swop the burden of proof. I doubt very much cavemen were frakking.

 

Fair enough. Would you think it's prudent to do that additional research prior to continuing the frakking, to determine it's safe first?

Do you think maybe that sometimes we do things a bit too soon before determining their safety?

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You didn't think I'd notice him there, did you?

 

Check

Mate

 

No, because there is no evidence to suggest that it is unsafe. As I stated (3 times, no less) in my original post: Correlation does not imply causation.

Absolutely. I just don't see this as being an example of that.

 

If it turns out like Thalidomide, frakking will be toast.

 

One taxpayer funded propaganda exercise by three libs is not very convincing.

If government is willing to spend an equal amount for a study by three academic's chosen by Exxon Corp then we can put the results side by side and discuss them.

But till then your motion is not accepted.

 

I'll look at any other studies gladly. How do you know the political affiliation of those scientists, though?

 

Just a lucky guess.

 

How did you confirm you guessed right?

 

They work at a liberal university where most of the employees are libs.

The odds are 99 to 1 that they are libs.

 

Hydraulic fracking is not only worthwhile, it's a virtual economic necessity for the United States.

Under the current political climate, it is the only path toward energy independence.

Under the current political climate, it's the only way this country is going to make a serious dent in its trade defecit (which has already begun to happen), and the only way we'll ever get out of the mountian of debt that we've inherited from two irresponsible GOP administrations, a war in the wrong country and the economic collapse.

It has already bequeathed us with tremendous economic leverage, which you can see with the talks over Iran, and Russia's bellicose impotence.

Still, fracking is not safe, and we need to make it safe.

Repeal the Halliburton loophole!

 

I don't think it has saved us a nickel at the gas pumps, nor is it likely to.

It will get us close to energy independence, and maybe we can use the reprieve (and a reprieve is what Fracking is) to develop the technologies we're going to need when the oil runs out.

Alas, if we do, we will have no help from the global warming denier, who carry big oil's water and work to insure that we will be sucking at the oil tit for a long time to come.