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Who needs evidence when there’s a good narrative to sell? The addicted crowd will clap on cue.
by alexandre_m 1y ago
Who needs evidence when there’s a good narrative to sell? The addicted crowd will clap on cue.
- CursedSilicon 1y agoIt's saddening that a community as self-assured of its own intellect as HackerNews would still be debating Climate Change I guess you both grew up really enjoying that one episode of South Park and just can't let go?
- hammock 1y agoWhich episode is that?
- WickyNilliams 1y agoManbearpig I assume
- laichzeit0 1y agoThere were similar such comments during Covid where people were saddened that people were still debating whether it was a lab-leak or not. Dogmatism, on which ever side, unless maybe in a field like mathematics which is entirely deductive, is not good.
- alexandre_m 1y agoWhat’s more saddening is seeing intellectually curious people who can’t recognize their own biases. It’s troubling how many accept this half-baked story without questioning the shaky correlations it draws. It’s similar to what happened when the Maui wildfire started, many people, and more worryingly, journalists, were quick to blame climate change in their initial reports. That narrative turned out to be inaccurate. In fact, scientific studies (including those published in the International Journal of Wildland Fire) show that most wildfires are actually caused by human activity. But people love sharing headlines that reinforce their existing biases, even when the facts tell a different story.