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There's a difference between thousands of climate scientists collecting, analyzing and sharing data, vs one author writing a "fact" that is hard to verify. The
by ehsankia 4y ago
There's a difference between thousands of climate scientists collecting, analyzing and sharing data, vs one author writing a "fact" that is hard to verify. The post above claims some of these appeared overnight or even within hours. That's a cool claim that adds a lot of credibility to this being supernatural, but how can we verify such a fact? Do we have to take the word of this one person as a fact? A book written by an author is not science. The comparison to climate scientist is ridiculous.
- ALittleLight 4y agoI don't think I did compare crop circles to climate science. I pointed out that the pattern of reasoning "Because X has an interest in Y we cannot trust X" applies equally well if X and Y are "fringe weirdo" and "crop circles" or if X and Y are "scientist" and "climate change". The fact that X studies Y, and has financial interests in it, does not mean that it is reasonable to discount X.
- ehsankia 4y agoRight, but my point is, financial interest for thousands of scientists is different from financial interest of a book author. A book and a peer-reviewed research paper are not the same. While not perfect, there are far more safeguards around money corrupting science than for a book.
- interstice 4y agoQuite often in the news with these stories someone is quoted in the article, would it be that hard to track them down and ask a question or two?