I Don't Trust Big Corporations That Make a Profit on Food

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People that believe in global warming don't really know the science very well at all. What they're doing is socially signalling, i'm a member of this team or i don't trust scientific authorities when they violate my central corps beliefs about free markets. In an age of information, what's needed is skill of selection above all. And that's what we should be teaching, you know, in school. We're not reading the studies, but we are trusting the process out of a rational world view it. The real thing about skepticism and all of this, as you and i both know and constantly preach, it's all about sources.

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