Public radio host asked my opinion on "climate change." Outraged when I said, "I don't have one. Not physicist & climatology's complicated."https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/922177245350805505 …
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I will say I don't understand the Big Bang well enough to argue about it if asked to do so. This doesn't imply there's no consensus.
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Yes. I suppose there's an important difference btwn issues that do & don't have massive long-term implications for human (& other) welfare.
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Not in this sense. I'm purely talking about being honest about not having the information necessary to give an informed opinion.
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It doesn't become OK to pretend you do if the topic is something of importance to human wellbeing. Just be honest about your limitations.
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Sure. What I meant was that, when there is an issue that has such profound implications for us all, I think some kind of duty kicks in ...
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... for thinking people, not to become experts, but at least to have looked into nature and preponderance of evidence.
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"Don't know, I'm not a climatologist" can b indirect way of lending comfort 2 deniers (not accusing
@amyalkon of that - didn't hear intvw!).
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As a default, subject to future revision... not as another piece of inarguable dogma. (which I don't think you'd argue, but many do)
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''No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.'' Jacob Bronowski
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