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> 100% of Nazi scientists believed that Jews were an inferior race. May I direct you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/w
by nikdaheratik 9y ago
> 100% of Nazi scientists believed that Jews were an inferior race.
May I direct you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law which suggests that at this point you have likely lost this thread. Don't worry, you can come back in a few weeks and will likely be able to put up more FUD about how the climate isn't changing and there's "no way to tell" whether putting more CO2 in the atmosphere will trap more infrared sunlight.
Nevermind that this property of CO2 is an established fact, and we have Venus as an example of what a runaway greenhouse effect looks like in real life. Also ignore the advice of the 95% of scientists who have studied this for years.
> the "established facts" for thousands of years in textbooks and everywhere was that the earth is flat
Most people (including scientists/philosophers) didn't believe that the Earth was flat. The Greeks used the theory that the Earth was spherical to determine the circumference of the Earth thousands of years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes). And sailors recognized that the Earth had to be spherical from early observations with spyglasses as well. The controversy was between religious leaders who wanted to continue to push the official "Geocentric" model (that is that the round Earth is the center of the universe) in spite of evidence to the contrary.
Of course, the fact that the Earth is round didn't affect most people's daily lives at the time the way climate change will today, which is why they didn't care much either way. A luxury we do not have.