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Read it again, you seem to have missed the point. Those "few lines from The Clash" are used to discredit what I call panic porn, they do not target an entire sc
by the_third_wave 5y ago
Read it again, you seem to have missed the point. Those "few lines from The Clash" are used to discredit what I call panic porn, they do not target an entire scientific area of study. Also notice that The Clash was proclaiming the ice age is coming, referring to the then-current ice age scare.
The scientific method can not work when extremes are used to attract attention, this eventually has the opposite effect of numbing the populace to yet another dire prediction of the coming collapse.
It is disheartening to see how (some?) people at this forum are wont to discredit anyone who does not follow the current narrative. This is neither rational nor objective, it is emotional and subjective.
- scarmig 5y agoI'd encourage anyone to read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling to get a sense of whether most scientists were promoting an "ice age scare" in the 1970s. Spoiler alert: nope.
- the_third_wave 5y agoIt doesn't take all that many people who speak from a point of (real or perceived) authority to whip up a scare. Also, most scientists thought continental drift was a hoax [1] - that did not make it less true. [1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-continental-drift-was-considered-pseudoscience-90353214/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-continent...