> I feel much of the mourning of lost trust in media comes down to crocodile tears In other words, anyone who questions a media narrative -- however obviously

> I feel much of the mourning of lost trust in media comes down to crocodile tears In other words, anyone who questions a media narrative -- however obviously thoughtless or ridiculous -- is "concern trolling", and therefore worth dismissing. > In our present crises, there seems to me a choice between hyperbole and bikeshedding. We have to stop this black and white thinking. There's absolutely a wide area of reasonable disagreement possible here: we can agree that climate is a problem, but disagree on the costs / benefit tradeoffs of any proposed solution. Science and policy are two very different things, but one side of the political spectrum seems devoted to turning "science" into a political bludgeon for their preferred policies. If you'd stop short of returning humanity to the stone age to stop climate change, then you, too, believe in reasonable tradeoffs. You can be a scientist and hold both things in your head at the same time.