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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
I agree with the above wholeheartedly. So, why not let the scientists debate this in a civilized manner without political interventions, without threats of institutional ostracizing and boycott and, most importantly, without media mob? The information posted by The Fonz is not Facebook crap; it is really happening to scientists that dare to be critical.
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Scientists do debate this in a civilized manner. If one reads the papers where science takes place rarely do politics enter into it (unless that's the thing being studied of course).
Science is messy, and full of people who do it run the range just like everywhere else in life; sometimes they're petty and mean, sometimes they're virtuous. Sometimes they let things cloud their judgement, sometimes they like their own ideas far too much, etc.
That's the whole point of science, is to overcome those human tendencies systematically. And it's been proven to work over and over; over time science will track towards better and better understandings. It's not always a straight line, but it self corrects.
Does that mean sometimes things are unfair to some? Sure. But they have the advantage in working in a field where if they're right eventually they'll get recognized.
Every single national scientific organization on the planet accepts that humans are influencing the climate. Of course trying to flip that is going to take significant effort; it should!