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He was not complaining about a lack of available information. He was complaining about non-rigorous arguments being passed off as a sufficient justification of
by haberman 10y ago
He was not complaining about a lack of available information. He was complaining about non-rigorous arguments being passed off as a sufficient justification of a political position.
If I say global warming is caused by the decline in the population of pirates in the world, my conclusion may be correct but my reasoning is flawed. If people pressured you to believe in global warming on the basis of the pirate argument, you would be right to push back on that.
- euyyn 10y agoIf all he wanted to say is "this infographic should have included the last 400 years instead, so people aren't misled by learning about the Little Ice Age", "proponents of global warming aren't engaging with the facts in an honest and forthright way" is a very poor way of expressing that.
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