TV's Frink said:

TV's Frink said:

I realize this is a bit naive, or at least whimsically hopeful. But if we can't trust the scientists, then who do we trust? How do we get a truly independent report?

Even if you don't agree with his political views, you should give Ben Stein's Expelled a view. It's about the "scientific community" banning anyone that doesn't subscribe to specific dogma. In the case of his movie, it's Darwinism, but I think it's impossible to not imagine a similar thing going on within the environmental sciences. In the end, I'm not sure you can trust "scientists" when they personally have so much on the line for saying anything that goes against the rest of the braintrust. Sort of like the picture you posted.

Does it just come down to what we want to believe, you and I?

I don't know. When you can't trust anyone else, don't you just rely on yourself? What else can you do?