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The Costly Failure to Update Sky-Is-Falling Predictions
- h2odragon 6y agoDoom sells. Overpopulation was going to starve everybody before 1999. Climate change (back when it was "The Greenhouse Effect") was going to make the mid-latitudes of the planet uninhabitable even sooner. Before that, the Allmighty has promised/threatened to "Call Us Home" innumerable times. Of course we have an interesting factor with this one; where people who were saying "it's not really going to be that bad" a couple months ago wont be able to prove it. Having had their words censored and removed for not following the Panic Party Line that was so swiftly decided on. If it looks like we made a mistake; would it be less painful as a society to admit that mistake, or will we decide that such evidence is still "misinformation": not worthy of publication.