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It seems rather optimistic to think that climate change can be (dis-)proven without going beyond the knowledge of the average person. And even where an average
by JoachimSchipper 16y ago
It seems rather optimistic to think that climate change can be (dis-)proven without going beyond the knowledge of the average person. And even where an average person could learn enough to check the data (e.g. in the whole autism-vaccines mess), people rarely do so.
- bugsy 16y agoMany have become skeptics after personally checking the data and protocol. Often this is not provided in enough detail to replicate the study. All such studies should be discarded. Those that provide their data and exact protocol can be reviewed. Journal articles are not an assertion of truth. They are an alleged reporting of results, which should be provided in enough detail to get the same results. This is necessary because historically only a minority of peer reviewed journal published results have reported things that ended up being true.