Re:Scientists want to create ‘red teams’ to challenge climat...
by Frondo on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:26PM
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If you trust Scott Adams to review scientific literature or assess scientific models, then sure, it's reasonable.
Scott Adams, a cartoonist, has given me no reason to trust his capability to review scientific literature or assess scientific models.
That's not to say that a cartoonist could never meaningfully contribute to a discussion on scientific literature or models, but with a background as a cartoonist, the bar for me to trust him on this is a lot higher than, say, climate researchers. "I've never seen..." is insufficient from him. There's probably a lot of stuff he's never seen since he's focused his career on drawing comics.
No, but... which is harder, to model the economy, or to model the climate? Which do we have more people trying to model, more money being poured into attempts to model?
> This is a rhetorical trick I find a little irritating.
It's not a proof of non-existence. I'm not sure it's supposed to be. It is a reasonable grounds for asking whether we're as sure as we think we are.