Nothing he posts is ever an argument. But back in the real world
This is a fairy tale that a lot of people believe. We want it to be that way. A world where that isn’t how things work is a bit frightening. We like to think that when evidence of how dangerous some nano particles can be is published, everybody working on nano particles is onboard with it. Everyone starts to test their new material carefully and that everybody is being careful to make sure there are no hidden dangers from new things. Nothing is farther from the truth.
But it’s not the simplistic view you try and paint. That’s rhetoric, not science. In fact, many researchers publish research and data that directly counters the consensus view, but you can be sure there is no mass movement of every researcher stopping their thing to change what they do. Far from it. The most common behavior is to dismiss it, say it isn’t true, or ignore it. Or to debunk it. Nothing in science ever goes in a simplistic way.
(from a different thread)
Once again we see this fairy tale view of how the world works. It’s never worked like that. And trying to paint the entire thing as complete black and white opposites is as unscientific as it gets. The scientific issues are complicated, numerous and novel as well.
What does that even mean? What coffin? It’s like there is this simplistic view of things that can be easily and finally closed. Nothing more to be said about it.
The science is settled. That sort of nonsense rhetoric is insane at a deep level.
It really does seem like a religious sort of belief, where “global warming” has replaced “God’s will” as a simple and final conclusion.
“Global warming is happening” is the simplistic viewpoint, and the solution is to get everyone to believe in it. Anyone who finds evidence that the climate isn’t changing as predicted is viewed with suspicion, if not outright hostility.
Same thing for the other side. In this simplistic Universe anyone who is keeping the modern world running by providing fuels is evil, and completely against global warming. It’s not like that. The world isn’t some simple black and white drama with simple characters with simple scripts they follow.
No matter how much we want to believe this.