Mind blown !

[IT Minion]

No. They would be discredited, and never recieve any funding in the future.
Their career would be in ruins.
They would lose all of their friends, their wife would file for divorce and they would be famously poor.

Thia is not true and demonstrably not true. I linked to Bjorn Lomborg, who was one of the few climate deniers in science for a long while. He was on 700k a year from one of his think tanks.

 

[denso13]

No. They would be discredited, and never recieve any funding in the future.
Their career would be in ruins.
They would lose all of their friends, their wife would file for divorce and they would be famously poor.

Liar.

 

[IT Minion]

Liar.

He's guessing, he's wrong because he doesn't know what he's talking about, but to give him credit he doesn't deserve i wouldn't class that as a lie.

 

[denso13]

He's guessing, he's wrong because he doesn't know what he's talking about, but to give him credit he doesn't deserve i wouldn't class that as a lie.

He's trolling. He knows he's wrong therefore lying, IMHO.

 

[IT Minion]

He's trolling. He knows he's wrong therefore lying, IMHO.

Oh he's trolling, but he probably didn't know that science contrarians are paid insanely well in the world of science.

 

[MNW67]

Oh he's trolling, but he probably didn't know that science contrarians are paid insanely well in the world of science.

I didn't know that. Do you mean through book sales and lectures etc. Or by their employer.

 

[Lirefighter]

Thia is not true and demonstrably not true. I linked to Bjorn Lomborg, who was one of the few climate deniers in science for a long while. He was on 700k a year from one of his think tanks.

Climate deniers?
I've never heard of anyone denying that there is a climate.
What does that even mean?

 

[IT Minion]

I didn't know that. Do you mean through book sales and lectures etc. Or by their employer.

It varies, there have been at least a few airport best-sellers from the science denial crowd. Mostly I think it's through employment, there are well funded think tanks who get a lot of funds and disbelieve in global warming. They will commission research from people who agree with them and they pay well.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

They would lose all of their friends, their wife would file for divorce and they would be famously poor.

Such has happened before, many times, to any who would dare to step out of line, with the perceived wisdom.

 

[IT Minion]

Such has happened before, many times, to any who would dare to step out of line, with the perceived wisdom.

... except it hasn't.

I've given an example of a wildly well paid counter example, you will probably just blame it on aliens.

 

[denso13]

Such has happened before, many times, to any who would dare to step out of line, with the perceived wisdom.

Like who?

 

[aveatry]

Climate deniers?
I've never heard of anyone denying that there is a climate.
What does that even mean?

Its just a common lazy trope when they want to ignore what is being said

 

[Lirefighter]

Its just a common lazy trope when they want to ignore what is being said

Yes, their barrage of posts trying to discredit what I said have kind of proven me right.
Not that they'd know it, mind.
Lefties, eh

 

[aveatry]

Nothing will convince you you're wrong because you've invested so much time arguing the other way. The purpose is to show others the flaws in your, and Harry's, delusions.

Will you believe the outcome of scientific research?
You don't currently.

THIS ----
Nothing is more powerful and more dangerous than an idea that has stopped being questioned once a concept is accepted without the filter of doubt it loses its living essence and becomes dogma something imposed by habit and authority rather than by truth that's where the real danger lies the moment an idea becomes untouchable it begins to exercise absolute power over the collective mind precisely because no one dares to challenge it any more.

 

[denso13]

THIS ----
Nothing is more powerful and more dangerous than an idea that has stopped being questioned once a concept is accepted without the filter of doubt it loses its living essence and becomes dogma something imposed by habit and authority rather than by truth that's where the real danger lies the moment an idea becomes untouchable it begins to exercise absolute power over the collective mind precisely because no one dares to challenge it any more.

It will always be questioned, that's what science does. If we find a better explanation then great.