Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?

captain morgan

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Because the "science" of global warming has so many blind followers it has become a religion..........

The fact that the truther set, when unable to counter or rebut a factual skepticism, relies exclusively on the strategy of labeling a dissenting voice a 'denier'.

Somehow, in their minds, this is proof-positive that their position is magically strengthened
 

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All the items were either supported by the current science of the time of were poo-pooed by the current science of the time. Science theories are fungible.

translation: I refuse to accept the current (climate) science of the day... cause... some past science of some past days was 'over-turned'. So, like, uhhh... you never know! This has absolutely nothing to do with my personal ideological bent and/or my lack of understanding - so quit labeling me a denier!
 

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translation: I refuse to accept the current (climate) science of the day... cause... some past science of some past days was 'over-turned'. So, like, uhhh... you never know! This has absolutely nothing to do with my personal ideological bent and/or my lack of understanding - so quit labeling me a denier!
I accept that there is climate change, I do not accept that man has anything to do with it.
 

waldo

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I accept that there is climate change, I do not accept that man has anything to do with it.

translation: I refuse to accept the current (climate) science of the day... cause... some past science of some past days was 'over-turned'. So, like, uhhh... you never know! This has absolutely nothing to do with my personal ideological bent and/or my lack of understanding - so quit labeling me a denier!
 

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All the items were either supported by the current science of the time of were poo-pooed by the current science of the time. Science theories are fungible.
They're self-correcting. Wegener was dismissed because he didn't have the evidence to make the case, but when the evidence became available, the scientific consensus changed. That's how it works. People once thought the earth was flat, then they thought it was spherical. It's neither, but if you think the latter is just as wrong as the former, you're more wrong than both.

People who are otherwise reasonable doubt science because they don't understand what it is and how it works, and their expectations of it are beyond what it can deliver. Science deals in evidence and probability, not certainty.
 
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MHz

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I accept that there is climate change, I do not accept that man has anything to do with it.
Good for you Walter because that is right.
The sunspot theory is also seriously flawed, if a pattern is to found in will be a rate change in the spreading of the undersea rifts and that will vary the heat being pumped into the ocean.
 

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People who are otherwise reasonable doubt science because they don't understand what it is and how it works, and their expectations of it are beyond what it can deliver. Science deals in evidence and probability, not certainty.

this!
 

MHz

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If evidence isn't certainty then what is it exactly. They promote that water on the surface of a glacier can flow through ice for 1/2 mile without re-freezing. How fuking stupid are you to believe that kind of crap.

Water at the base is either from friction or the base rock is warming up because of the magma that flows across the bottom of the crust. How much heat is released into the ocean for each inch the rifts spread?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpWaGgcxWXM&list=PL00u99IRraJtn38lgAequUjcZR_uFnkdY&index=36
 

MHz

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Global warming tards. You never heard that theory? The one I saw was when 'they' were coveing Greenland and the receding glaciers. I can probably find it again as it seemed to be one main points that was used.

Surface Melt Adds to Ice Loss in Greenland : Discovery News
Instead of losing ice where massive glaciers meet the sea, Greenland now sends meltwater rushing into the ocean via a vast network of lakes and rivers, according to several studies. The results do not mean that glaciers have stopped their speedy flow, only that surface melting now exerts a more powerful influence on ice loss, researchers said.
"We no longer see giant icebergs calving" from glaciers, releasing ice into the sea, said Lora Koenig, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, who led one of the new studies. "The majority of water is coming from surface melt." [Photos: Under the Greenland Ice Sheet]




Greenland Glaciers Losing Ice Much Faster, Study Says
Warming surface temperatures in Greenland are allowing more meltwater to trickle down to the glacier bed. There, where glacier meets earth, the water acts as a lubricant, allowing the ice to flow more quickly to the ocean.
When the increasing speed of the glacier ice is factored into sea level rise models, Greenland accounts for about 0.02 inch (0.5 millimeter) per year of the global rise, which currently stands at about 0.1 inch (3 millimeters) per year, he said.
The recent increases in glacier speed on Greenland are responsible for more than two-thirds of Greenland's contribution to sea level rise, he added.

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You should be more worried about what Kiev has planned tor the homeland.
 

darkbeaver

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They're self-correcting. Wegener was dismissed because he didn't have the evidence to make the case, but when the evidence became available, the scientific consensus changed. That's how it works. People once thought the earth was flat, then they thought it was spherical. It's neither, but if you think the latter is just as wrong as the former, you're more wrong than both.

People who are otherwise reasonable doubt science because they don't understand what it is and how it works, and their expectations of it are beyond what it can deliver. Science deals in evidence and probability, not certainty.

What percentage of earths people thought the earth was flat in 1492 or 1066 or 1742? Right that's what I thought, you have no reliable or otherwise statistics from those years to support your claim. Not a shread of scientific evidence and you still persist in passing superstition off as fact. The fact is that the flat earth meme was invented shortly after the introduction of laundry detergent purely as a maketing scheme.
 

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translation: I refuse to accept the current (climate) science of the day... cause... some past science of some past days was 'over-turned'. So, like, uhhh... you never know! This has absolutely nothing to do with my personal ideological bent and/or my lack of understanding - so quit labeling me a denier!

Way simpler than that. Globull warmers just have a bad case of chicken little syndrome. Couple of warm days in some desert and you think the earth is on fire.
 

darkbeaver

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You should be more worried about what Kiev has planned tor the homeland.

You'd think he would be and it is strange that he avoids discussion about the epicenter of his gene pool. Maybe he knows Kiev already ain't allowed to plan anything and there's no Ukrainians left in the Ukrainian government.
 

waldo

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Way simpler than that. Globull warmers just have a bad case of chicken little syndrome. Couple of warm days in some desert and you think the earth is on fire.

ya ya, taxi! You doubt science... and... you're not even reasonable! :mrgreen:
 

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Reasonable people don't doubt real scientists. That would be foolish.