Do you think San Diego weatherman John Coleman is lying or is he naive?

As I mentioned, I have shared a stage with him in the past when each of us were representing the views of our respective political parties. I found him to be gracious, likeable and an all-around nice guy.

I have a hard time thinking that he is lying and, with his lack of science credentials, it is easy for someone with just enough science background to try figure things out and think he has answers that have eluded real scientists. This is especially true with persons who, however otherwise gregarious and positive they may be, have the kind of oversized egos necessary to succeed in the kind of media field he is in.

I prefer to believe he is simply in error and, lacking any evidence to the contrary (such as outright grants or bribes from the pushers of our addiction to non-renewable FINITE FILTHY FOSSIL FUELS, which I have not seen in his case), prefer to believe that most people are basically decent.

Prior to 1492, those lacking science backgrounds believed for many centuries that the world was flat because those profiting off Big Religion (in both money and power) told them so, and because they could look out their front doors and it LOOKED flat, while the few educated scientists of the time were unanimous in their knowledge that the world is round and even knew its precise circumference (calculated by Eratosthenes back in 240BC). They were not “lying” or even particularly ignorant. They saw an optical illusion and did not have a grasp of the intricacies of the scientific realities that had been known for all those centuries.

This wisdom from blogger DDWiz