
173. Naomi Oreskes — Why Trust Science?
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Conciliante of Inductions
The more evidence you have, the worse your argument is. There's nothing magical about 97%. It's like if it was 96 %, we'd have doubt it. T's just that the whoever's challenging the status quo, they're not coming up with a better explanation than what the main stream theory does. And there are big arguments in physics about quantum theory - some of whom are credible physicists right? We don't know whether any one world is truly indeterministic or wetdoes,. But interestingly most of those people had alternative theories, where the climate change is an 'inconvenience' to them. I call that fossil fallacy. Cause gish used to say, just
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