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Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl
is there not often a generalized truth-production step that occurs after collection and analysis of empirical data and evaluation of hypotheses (I assume this is often the goal of sections entitled "Discussion")?
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Replying to @simpolism
Of course there is. What's extraordinary is his claim, "sometimes people get wrong answers when they use scientific method, therefore SM is not magical and infallible."
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Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl
So, just to clarify, what is your claim about Global Warming? That (the conservatives claim that) the scientific consensus does not align with the results of the empirical tests?
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Replying to @simpolism
A conservative could make two claims wrt consensus: 1) that consensus is incomplete, and 2) that the consensus is politically biased (most climate scientists have leftwing views)
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Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl @simpolism
if you're arguing biases you're not going to get a productive discussion though. could just as easily argue that climate science dissenters are unusually likely to have right wing views and their own tendencies for motivated reasoning.
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Replying to @danlistensto @simpolism
It doesn't imply that this argument isn't going to get made. Lack of diversity of views among climate scientists isn't an argument in favor of GW, regardless of the views of GW critics.
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Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl @simpolism
you're correct to point out that the ideological homogeneity is an impediment to finding the objective truth on questions like "how much average oceanic temperature warming (or cooling) should we expect in the next 100 years?"
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that said, I wouldn't automatically dismiss a strong consensus of researchers investigating this question just because those researchers share political views. it's reason to be skeptical, but that just means double checking their work.
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