Almost daily. Especially in the context of how the media have baselessly attacked science with populist arguments that seem to find favour despite being obviously wrong. I wish journalists had enough courage in their convictions to tell their brain surgeon he's "doing it wrong" and should instead use a red hot poker instead of a laser.
That there are a growing number of people who believe global warming doesn't exist makes me ashamed to be a human being. The earth has got warmer in the last century, and at an unprecedented rate. As to the reasons? Who do you believe? The scientist who have spent years researching it? Or the journalists who are paid not to have knowledge but to tell us things we agree with (so we buy newspapers)?
Scientists are also paid, funded, just as journalists are, and as with journalists, the bigger the find, the more sensational the results, the greater funding will follow. It's big business in itself.
True enough, but science is peer reviewed on a massive scale, i.e. internationally and frequently. Other scientists are often keen to either discredit or benefit from another's work and, in that way, bad science gets rooted out.
Journalism is reviewed only by the public, who don't have equal voice when they disagree with a journalist. Furthermore, they're a biased public because they're the public who buy a particular newspaper with a particular political leaning; one that the journalist is playing up to, whether they agree with it or not.
Ahh, this was the bad old days. Someone had about twenty accounts and would thumb me down with all of them. TheManagement had to change the way thumbing worked. A handful of others suffered the same treatment.
I once said "Thanks very much" to someone and got down to -28.
How often to you think about Global Warming/Climate Change?
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Almost daily. Especially in the context of how the media have baselessly attacked science with populist arguments that seem to find favour despite being obviously wrong. I wish journalists had enough courage in their convictions to tell their brain surgeon he's "doing it wrong" and should instead use a red hot poker instead of a laser.
That there are a growing number of people who believe global warming doesn't exist makes me ashamed to be a human being. The earth has got warmer in the last century, and at an unprecedented rate. As to the reasons? Who do you believe? The scientist who have spent years researching it? Or the journalists who are paid not to have knowledge but to tell us things we agree with (so we buy newspapers)?
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Scientists are also paid, funded, just as journalists are, and as with journalists, the bigger the find, the more sensational the results, the greater funding will follow. It's big business in itself.
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True enough, but science is peer reviewed on a massive scale, i.e. internationally and frequently. Other scientists are often keen to either discredit or benefit from another's work and, in that way, bad science gets rooted out.
Journalism is reviewed only by the public, who don't have equal voice when they disagree with a journalist. Furthermore, they're a biased public because they're the public who buy a particular newspaper with a particular political leaning; one that the journalist is playing up to, whether they agree with it or not.
This is the first time I've seen you voted down to zero. How depressing that it's on this issue, of all things.
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Ahh, this was the bad old days. Someone had about twenty accounts and would thumb me down with all of them. TheManagement had to change the way thumbing worked. A handful of others suffered the same treatment.
I once said "Thanks very much" to someone and got down to -28.