Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market

Re:Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market by simias on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @02:08PM (#15854695)

I'm not convinced, I haven't followed that particular event closely but as far as I know it was mostly about opposing the anti-science views of Trump and his administration. Given that he said multiple times that global warming was a chinese conspiracy I'm not sure this reaction is particularly extreme or uncalled for, regardless of your opinion on the topic. Using this to say that this million of people participating are adepts of scientism is a bit of a stretch IMO.

Using the same logic I could say that the 62+ millions of Americans who voted for Trump are climate change deniers but I don't think that would be fair either.

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Re:Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market by smallnamespace on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @05:19PM (#15856577)

> opposing the anti-science views of Trump and his administration

> I'm not sure this reaction is particularly extreme or uncalled for

But opposition can easily veer into defining, and then rigorously defending, a 'pro-scientific' dogma that actually ends up opposing new, legitimate research.

As a complete hypothetical, what if an esteemed climate scientist discovers evidence that global temperature increase estimates actually are too high by, say, a factor of 2? Will people take that evidence seriously, or write it off as 'climate change denial'?

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