Catch phrases — many of academic origin (supply and demand, economies of scale, stimulus and response, IQ, schizophrenic, identity crisis, reinforcement, social skills, computer
model, the selfish gene, and so on ad infinitum)-- are
accepted uncritically by most literate people as representing eternal realities.
Why would all these people, who know that the «transmission»
model fails to facilitate intellectual development,
uncritically accept the very same
model to promote ethical development?
In the face of Zwally's analysis, defenders of the CO2 warming meme retreated to stressing uncontested observations of lost ice due to dynamic glacier thinning or
uncritically accepting speculative
models of catastrophic deglaciation.