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How I lost trust in scientists (Sabine Hossenfelder) - C C - Aug 9, 2024
SABINE HOSSENFELDER
https://youtu.be/gMOjD_Lt8qY
VIDEO EXCERPTS: I don’t trust science and I don’t trust scientists. There, I said it. Yes, it’s taken me some courage. Because after you’ve watched this video some of you will call me a science denier. And maybe you’re right, you know, maybe that’s what I’ve become.
[...] But seriously. I have good reasons to mistrust science, and scientists and so do you. I mean look at this stock image of a scientist. Would you trust that guy? I wouldn’t. Yes, that means you shouldn’t trust me, either.
[...] the problem isn’t that parts of physics drifted off into pseudoscience per se, because this happens every once in a while, in the natural evolution of the sciences. The problem is that it hasn’t had any consequences.
We’ve recognized the problem with ESP studies, chucked them out of universities, and updated statistical methods to prevent that from happening again. But physicists have been inventing unobservable things that no one ever finds for half a century and are still happily doing it, believing it’s proper science. And if it can happen in physics, it can happen in other disciplines, too.
[...] In the foundations of physics, scientists basically seem to have concluded that they don’t need to care about what the public thinks, they’ll get paid anyway, so now they just ignore all criticism.
Climate scientists in contrast, are afraid of the public. [...which...] does create a problem: it introduces a bias in their arguments. ... But the conclusion from that isn’t what climate change deniers want it to be. It’s not that climate change is a hoax. It’s that it’s almost certainly worse than the impression they raise... (MORE - video)
RE: How I lost trust in scientists (Sabine Hossenfelder) - Syne - Aug 9, 2024
Really? So this "don't trust scientists" is only a Trojan horse for climate fear-mongering on steroids?