The "media machine" isn't helping produce skeptics, a significant percentage of people will always believe in nonsense. Astrology, homoeopathy, telepathy, sean

The "media machine" isn't helping produce skeptics, a significant percentage of people will always believe in nonsense. Astrology, homoeopathy, telepathy, seances, conspiracy theories; the world in awash in centuries old nonsense. You can't produce evidence, proof, arguments, or rationalization to assuage these people of their beliefs, they are stubborn in them. Same with climate change denialists. The ONLY problem is we give them a voice. We don't say have a metrologist and a fortune teller on to hear both sides of a forecast but there's still an insistence on having some climatologist who knows what they are talking about and some random hothead who works at a PR firm for Exxon when talking about climate change for the viewer to "decide". Nonsense! It takes years of specialized study, the viewer isn't qualified to decide, that's the media's job, to not put on PR spinster horseshit and claim it as potentially valid. There will always be large pool of nonsense. We need to stop dipping our toes into it and amplifying those voices in critical urgent issues such as climate change. We don't have the time for the bullshit. For all the talk we do about "bold disruptive innovation" it's all nonsense, we are propping up industries that are killing the planet through nonstop bullshit because we don't want to rock the boat too much on power and profit structures.