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Old 09-01-2010, 12:17 AM  
Bill8
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Originally Posted by CheeseFrog View Post
Global warming is a largely accepted fact amongst the scientific community. The only sector where there's an huge split between the believers and skeptics is the general populace.
You should say "model" or "theory", or something like that, not fact. I think model describes it best.

Facts, in the scientific method, means data, measurements, usually.

And facts in law and politics are something else entirely again.

sorry to be a language and rhetoric geek, but use of the word "fact" like that just sets you up for easy proceedural rebuttal - they do a strawman argument over the word fact.
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