Climate Science

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I accept that science works as an institution for approaching the truth about some a natural phenomena we can study. And those who don't believe it, they're kind of signallin. I don't really trust science. You know, those sinc authorities, you know, thei'r bias. They're political. They're ideological. They have a left wing bias. I don't trust them. Nobody neither side knows much about c o two gases or glaciers or whatever. The technical thing is beside the point. It's, what does it stand for? Ye, yen,. i think that’s why you would find the most am, the most endorsement of very plausible things

When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. We have what Julia Galef calls a “soldier” mindset: a drive to defend the ideas we most want to believe — and shoot down those we don’t. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a “scout” mindset. Unlike the soldier, a scout’s goal isn’t to defend one side over the other. It’s to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what’s actually true. In The Scout Mindset, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think.