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And since when is having an opinion on an issue seen as a bad thing? Of COURSE we have competing agendas, I mean, fucking grow up. Between this lightweight bullshit media ongoing meme about "the answer is always somewhere in the middle so we'll present both sides" crap that we're bombarded with everyday and the amount of money entrenched interests pay captive corporate media to filter their coverage..I mean it's not amazing that we can make no progress on this stuff.
You know, scientists have an agenda, energy corporations have an agenda, religious groups have an agenda..everyone has a fucking agenda. The answer isn't always in the middle and they all can't be right all the time. That's the whole point of a democracy and a free market of ideas and free will and the empirical method - to weigh this shit and get to something as humanly possible to the thruth and act on it.
The whole problem as I see it, is the powers that be love nothing better than to "engage in healthy debate" and prolong that charade as long as necessary as long as it keeps anything from threatening their influence.