Letters to the Editor
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Super Rats
Super rationals are people who must have empirical evidence for everything, including their breakfast cereal. Super-Rats come from all walks of life, all political parties. George Bush is a Super-Rat, he had all the evidence to go to war in Iraq, it never occured to him that it was a lousy idea. Right now the Wall Street Super-Rats are taking the market to new highs, (and assuming what they don't know can't hurt them, the whereabouts of all those leveraged securities and their market value.)
Super-Rats often fail to regard the consequences, because the empirical data is staked in their favor. Other Super Rats fail to act, because they can't put the data together, even while the consequences are staring them in the face. The Super-Rats are frozen by data overload, leaving the field wide open to the risk takers, who want to play dice with the universe. The risk takers alternately promote their ideas, based on selective information, and attempt to block actions when there is not enough data to support the view. If the information on Global Warming was in the hands of the current Pentagon lackeys, we would be cutting CO2 emissions tomorrow.