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Originally Posted by Damien

I liked this article this morning: https://www.ft.com/content/5dc6fd46-...e-abe238dee8e2



We don't want purely technocratic governments but the likes of Gove and Hannan take the view that all technical or expert interventions are undemocratic intrusions upon their right to make everything a philosophical debate. It doesn't matter if it's a Bank of England Governor commenting on fiscal policy or major scientific bodies advising on global warming, their position as elected politicians doesn't just give them the authority to decide how to act on technical advice but to determine what that technical advice should be. Dougless Carswell recently joined the ranks of the revolt against the technocratic elite by insisting the Sun and not the the Moon causes tides. It didn't matter than the person he was arguing with was the head of Scientific research at Sussex or that it is the moon which causes tides. He believes the Sun causes them and he isn't going to let some jumped up scientist tell him otherwise.

well what you don't know is where the sun goes at night it actually drops down into the ocean and just like when a fat bloke gets in the bath the water rises- in the day time the sun rises and the moon drops into the ocean and because it has a lower mass[ the science bit] the tide goes down .