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I often encounter people who reject everything that the "mainstream" is telling them. They do this because humans are partly pattern machines. We see a pattern and extrapolate it. So if the "mainstream" lies over and over, it's tempting to just believe everything they say is a lie.

But the reason all you hear from mainstream are the lies and the evil is primarily that your input feed is curated to bias for such things. You are being focused onto things that are not representative. Making statistical inferences like "it's all lies" is actually a bad inference because it is only your feed that is all lies.

Sure, there is enough data to day that Biden is probably guilty of corruption. But you should also leave room for doubt. Maybe Ray Epps wasn't an FBI agent.

Case in point is global warming. IIn fact, that is my litmus test. People who say the whole thing is a scam to have an excuse for world government socialism... they have this thinking problem. They are the ones who cannot actually find truth because they are relying on simple statistical patterns that don't represent reality, rather than going and looking for themselves at actual evidence. They are also the most confident and comfortable in their ignorance, which makes total sense. If they weren't comfortable in their ignorance, they might have discovered the truth. This is probably the underlying cause of the Dunning-Krueger effect.

The world is complex. Simple answers are probably wrong. Epstein might have killed himself. Steel does soften and lose structural holding ability well below it's melting point. The UFO pictures are probably reflections or other artifacts. Most people are not malicious. But many people are highly deluded. And the global mean temperature is increasing primarily due to more CO2 being in the atmosphere than ever before.

Feel free to disagree but this is not a thread I want to have arguments in. This is just a thought I wanted to put out there. And agree or disagree, I'll keep working to make gossip the best nostr client I can make it.

gsovereignty 2y ago

The problem I have with "climate change" is the same as I had with "covid".

The science is neither here nor there because the action taken in response is anchored in politics and totally disconnected from the scientific method.

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

It is absolutely true that climate science is now highly biased and corrupted by politics. But even through that noise, some signal gets through. Governments are not trying to be evil, they are just bumbledums and move as slow as molassas, and sometimes the almost accidently do the right thing, or allow a good thing to happen.

In most sciences, science is incredibly fragile and can go wrong for many many kinds of different reasons, so bias like this completely erases any valid results.

But In "climate science" people aren't actually doing science anyways. Because you can't run experiments by trying different things on different planets. All they can do is take measurements and build models. And I'm quite suspicious of models.

But I'm less suspicious of measurements. Especially the satellite ones. I saw Soon's recent paper that argued that temperature measurements are biased to be taken near cities where they are more easily accessed, and cities have grown and therefore become hotter, and so the heating is partly due to city growth, not global warming. That's fascinating if true. But that doesn't explain the satellite measurements.

And to my original point, I don't think there is a conspiracy of marxists faking the measurements under some devious plan to setup a world government.