Just look at this circular logic:
The first thing you have to do, as hard as it seems, is divorce yourself from your political party's opinion...People are split 50/50 between political parties, and they can't all be right; so your odds are 50/50 that your party is wrong. Here's how to better your odds of being right.
Instead, get your information from the people who study climate change full time. They don't have all the answers either, but they understand them a lot better than any politician. On any science question, go with the relevant experts in that field, and you'll be right far more often than you'll be wrong.
If you're distrustful of scientists because you think they've been paid off to do bad research because of global warming's economic impacts, then fine; exclude the researchers whom you've found to have a conflict of interest. The vast majority of climate researchers are grad students and post docs. They're in every country, from every walk of life; some with salaries, some with grants; working for academia, business, and government.
If you distrust any filter, then simply go straight to the source. Don't listen to engineers, pundits, politicians, or scientists in other fields. Don't ever let your politics determine your science.
Instead, get your information from the people who study climate change full time. They don't have all the answers either, but they understand them a lot better than any politician. On any science question, go with the relevant experts in that field, and you'll be right far more often than you'll be wrong.
If you're distrustful of scientists because you think they've been paid off to do bad research because of global warming's economic impacts, then fine; exclude the researchers whom you've found to have a conflict of interest. The vast majority of climate researchers are grad students and post docs. They're in every country, from every walk of life; some with salaries, some with grants; working for academia, business, and government.
If you distrust any filter, then simply go straight to the source. Don't listen to engineers, pundits, politicians, or scientists in other fields. Don't ever let your politics determine your science.
Can science be trusted? I dunno, let's ask scientists!
That's as absurd as Muslims who tell us to believe the Koran is written by God, and can prove it by quoting....The Koran.




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