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Re:Humans Have Pumped Enough Groundwater to Change the Tilt ... by refibrillator on Saturday June 17, 2023 @10:15AM (#36370342)
This seems to happen a lot here lately, particularly on earth and space science related topics. After you read the comments on a paper in your field, it becomes depressingly obvious that a lot of the most upvoted commentary is armchair skeptics doing back of the napkin math that sounds good but falls apart upon closer inspection. Gell-mann amnesia effect, etc.
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Re:Humans Have Pumped Enough Groundwater to Change the Tilt ... by x86x87 on Saturday June 17, 2023 @01:28PM (#36372306)
Something else is happening in sone cases. You have research that tells you something, the press picks it up/exaggerates it to the point that it's no longer connected to the real thing + now we are all talking whatifs and have opinions without reading the initial claims.

In cases like this it's more than fair to call bullshit.

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