If you’re a conspiracy theorist who believes that only 3% of scientists are honest, you most certainly have never known anyone who plays a role in this discipline.
Now, you don’t have to be a QAnon/MAGA Trump supporter to harbor this type of BS in your mind. A few years ago, I attended a lecture at the University of California at Santa Barbara where the speaker asserted that science, especially climate science, is now a matter of politics, rather than science per se, and that the subject of climate change is being forced upon us by people with PhDs whose work is all about government funding that has no basis in reality.
That’s quite an accusation, given, as it was, without any evidence. The president of the university got a letter from me the next day.
If you happen to be an honest person who for some reason wants to maintain this asinine idea, do yourself a favor. Make a few phone calls, or send a few emails to the people who have dedicated their entire adult lives to understanding the phenomenon of global warming.
That’s what I did, about 15 years ago. Speaking with real scientists does wonders in cleansing oneself of ignorance.
Answer:
No. About 70% of the country objects to Trump’s sociopathic criminality.
He’s supported by about 28% of hateful morons, and 2% of rich greedy, selfish pigs.
As they say, “Check your bank account if you want to know which of these groups you fall into.”
If you want to remain ignorant of science, that’s your choice. Homeschool your kids and teach them that rejecting Christ will send them to an eternity of torment in hell.
You’ll need to start while their still young, while they’re still incapable of asking you why all the little boys and girls who are born in non-Christian countries are doomed to be tortured forever.
Maybe if you can isolate them such that they’ll never question why the bible says the Earth is 6000 years old, when dinosaur bones are hundreds of millions of years old.
If you want to go down this road, which I call child abuse, you have that right.
But realize this: as time passes and science continues to help us cure disease, explore space, extend our lives, and, we hope, help us to avert environmental collapse, your position will reveal itself for what it is: cruel stupidity.
Dr. Brian Cox has risen to the status of what I would call an “astrophysics badass” in a matter of just a few short years. Anywhere you go on social media, there’s Cox making you think the most profound thoughts imaginable.
I won’t give anything away, but I caution you to fasten your seatbelt.
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