Scientists are the same as any other group -- most are reasonably honest, trying to perform well enough to not get fired, but more interested in impressing their friends. Some are willing to enhance their results to look better. A few extend that to outright fraud, either as a calculated risk of benefit versus getting caught, or because they're just psychotic sociopaths. Mann seems to be the latter. He's been so integrated in the climate fraud, and so well rewarded for his role in propagating it, he thinks it's real, despite the enormous body of evidence to the contrary.
But Mann isn't the real problem. No fraud can succeed without an abundance of easy marks. Our culture has become so science averse that few people understand the issues, and resort to following popular opinion found on their media safe spaces for guidance. Their ignorance has fed the covid panic. They'll get back to misunderstanding the weather eventually.
Those of us like Cube, trained in reading and interpreting data, sometimes forget that most people are happily oblivious. Probably half the people you meet wouldn't know what a cube is. Something to put in cheap coffee, maybe, or an ugly car. The failed education system is the cause of many of our problems.
Mann's exhortation of "Don't engage" is his worst contribution to humanity. Dogma is making a comeback, but truth will come out. As our leaders expose themselves more and more as incompetent fools, direct democracy (enabled by modern technology) will rise in legitimacy. https://www.masterresource.org/debate-issues/debate-not-assume-climate-crisis/
Thanks for the kind words David, and the link Norstadt.
We cannot literally stop this. I don´t know what to do. How do you convince someone who is even intelligent, IQ 140 etc who can solve great engineering problems but as soon as the Teevee screens tell them something they believe it without question. I cannot see how they can just shut their brain off when it comes to this stuff.
I think it must have to do with wanting to fit into a society and not be outcasted by calling BS on what 90% of the lemmings believe.
I'm encouraged that the Harry Potter series includes an evil newspaper reporter who makes up stories to generate headlines. It makes it easy to explain to kids that newspapers are full of lies and propaganda.
It's useful to remember the prayer to fix the things we can, accept what we can't, and know the difference. It isn't really an issue that some submit to ignorance, nor that some become neurotic, but that some try to force us to submit. The universe seldom gives us what we want.
I suspect that almost anyone who has subscribed to the "vaccine good" narrative, is totally unwilling to even consider the possibility that they may be wrong because they were fed lies and not even considering that they may have been given a slow poison.
Scientists are the same as any other group -- most are reasonably honest, trying to perform well enough to not get fired, but more interested in impressing their friends. Some are willing to enhance their results to look better. A few extend that to outright fraud, either as a calculated risk of benefit versus getting caught, or because they're just psychotic sociopaths. Mann seems to be the latter. He's been so integrated in the climate fraud, and so well rewarded for his role in propagating it, he thinks it's real, despite the enormous body of evidence to the contrary.
But Mann isn't the real problem. No fraud can succeed without an abundance of easy marks. Our culture has become so science averse that few people understand the issues, and resort to following popular opinion found on their media safe spaces for guidance. Their ignorance has fed the covid panic. They'll get back to misunderstanding the weather eventually.
Those of us like Cube, trained in reading and interpreting data, sometimes forget that most people are happily oblivious. Probably half the people you meet wouldn't know what a cube is. Something to put in cheap coffee, maybe, or an ugly car. The failed education system is the cause of many of our problems.
Mann's exhortation of "Don't engage" is his worst contribution to humanity. Dogma is making a comeback, but truth will come out. As our leaders expose themselves more and more as incompetent fools, direct democracy (enabled by modern technology) will rise in legitimacy. https://www.masterresource.org/debate-issues/debate-not-assume-climate-crisis/
Thanks for the kind words David, and the link Norstadt.
We cannot literally stop this. I don´t know what to do. How do you convince someone who is even intelligent, IQ 140 etc who can solve great engineering problems but as soon as the Teevee screens tell them something they believe it without question. I cannot see how they can just shut their brain off when it comes to this stuff.
I think it must have to do with wanting to fit into a society and not be outcasted by calling BS on what 90% of the lemmings believe.
I've had success talking about Gell-Mann Amnesia to smart people. Most can relate to that, and maybe the seeds of doubt will grow. https://www.noenthuda.com/2018/10/02/murray-gell-mann-amnesia-and-the-vodnoy-paradox/
I'm encouraged that the Harry Potter series includes an evil newspaper reporter who makes up stories to generate headlines. It makes it easy to explain to kids that newspapers are full of lies and propaganda.
It's useful to remember the prayer to fix the things we can, accept what we can't, and know the difference. It isn't really an issue that some submit to ignorance, nor that some become neurotic, but that some try to force us to submit. The universe seldom gives us what we want.
The truth is already out. Some don't understand it, some just don't want to hear it.
I suspect that almost anyone who has subscribed to the "vaccine good" narrative, is totally unwilling to even consider the possibility that they may be wrong because they were fed lies and not even considering that they may have been given a slow poison.
Ok. Been thinking on this for at least a year...
My next genetic engineering move for humans....
we make thumbs more like wisdom teeth....you
don't expect to see thumbs till about mid-teens,
and some never even get them...(this would in-
clude me as I still have no significant wisdom teeth
in xray).....ie you only get thumbs when you sort of
earn them...like car keys....