Climate Science Is a Good Example, but It's an Unrepresentative Example

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Climate science is an unrepresentative example because of all the political pressures around it. Political pressures both convince a whole bunch of people of really dopy things like the climate is not changing, or it's not because of human beings. But they also introduce non scientific considerations into how scientists talk about it. So that's disagreement that scientists just put up with. And i think th ideally, in a perfect position, the same thing would be true for climate science,. and it largely is.

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