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And people say it snowed in the summer and therefore global warming is false. Is it the scientific community's responsibility to step up every time John Q. Publ
by inimino 10y ago
And people say it snowed in the summer and therefore global warming is false. Is it the scientific community's responsibility to step up every time John Q. Public makes an entirely uninformed and irrelevant statement?
- exabrial 10y agoYes of course. Do you want an educated public or are you just trying to get them to believe in a doctrine?
- inimino 10y agoIf climate scientists shot down every mistaken claim people make about their field, they wouldn't have any time left over for climate science. The science is no more "tarnished" by people's misunderstanding of it than quantum mechanics is by people using it as a justification for pseudoscience.
- exabrial 10y agoI see. The end justifies the means? It's ok for people to lack true understanding because it's helpful for your, er, greater, cause?
- inimino 10y ago> end justifies the means What? Are you replying to what I wrote or just spewing random nonsense? Is there such a thing as an astroturfing bot? You aren't really demonstrating human-level reading comprehension here. Is this always what it feels like to engage climate deniers?