Comments by "PM" (@pm71241) on "Climate Change and the Role of Government | DIRECT MESSAGE | Rubin Report" video.

+Lazypackmule I can claim that evidence points to all biologists being wrong about evolution too ... that doesn't make it correct. It basically just make me sound like an ignorant fool.
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+Hailthorn Yeah... let's debate and put up for review the following scientific facts: The helio-centric system, evolution, quantum mechanics, ....etc. Let's have every lay-person weight in with their opinion and ensure we never make any scientific conclusions but keep "debating" even the most well supported theories. ... because "science is always to be debated". No matter how overwhelming the evidence is - as IT IS WITH CLIMATE CHANGE ...
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+Adam Haynes Yeahh... "Group think" - in EXACTLY the same way as when most physicists accept "The Big Bang" and Quantum mechanics and EXACTLY the same way as it's "Group think" when most biologists accept evolution. For some reason, people tend to converge on agreeing on facts ... You can call it "Group think". I call it science.
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JESUS! ... Dave ... you have completely lost ANY credibility wrt. your claim about "using reason". Man made climate change is a scientific FACT the same way as evolution. Try replace every mention of the science of climate change in your rant here with evolution and see if you find it reasonable to slander those accepting the science of evolution the same way as you just did with those not denying antropogenic global warming. If you can't manage to keep the science separate from the politics of how to solve the problem, you have NO credibility for lecturing anybody about their positions. And btw... Alex Epstein DO deny the science. He'll gladly utter self-contradicting nonsense in order to give people who don't know the science enough the impression that he doesn't deny it... but most of his arguments are based AT LEAST on sowing unjustified doubt about the science it self. The Rubin Report seems to have totally abandoned reason have have become a useful idiot - a tool for spreading misinformation - for those who benefit from sowing manufactured doubt about scientific facts.
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We actually do. I used to be a member of the libertarian party. Left due to rampant science denial. Anyway... I'm not looking at the funding here. I just hear what Dave says and at minimum what he does in the first half of this video is just being a useful idiot for the misinformation campaign. Alex Epstein IS a climate science denier. Several of the thigs he said were blatantly wrong, but you don't have to explicitly contradict science to practice science denial. Just trying to sow unwarranted doubt about the science is also denial. If a creationists starts telling you that there's still open questions wrt. evolution and that we should "tech the controversy" ... it's strictly not denying the science, but it's still misrepresenting the actual state of the science. Alex Epstein does the same. And several of the other right wingers he whitewashed (Crowder, etc) are even more explicit in their science denial. I welcome a discussion about the solutions, but I have no patience with people contributing to spreading misinformation about the science. PS: It seems the talk with Benji after this is actually reasonable.
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... and btw... I don't buy Dave's BS about Alex Epstein "engaging" in dialog. I don't call making a response video where you basically just sit and say that the explanation for all the criticism is that the critics are ignorant "engaging". Ifne, he Alex is is the only one allow to make arguments and people cannot respond, that's not very brave of Alex. If Alex had a back bone he'd argue his case in a forum of climate scientists.
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Yeah ... Dave revels in the conflict with the SJWs ... Criticism of their often stupid post modernist ideas are warranted, but it seems Dave's message about respectful dialogue doesn't apply when Dave rants about the SJW left. I was a member of "liberal Alliance". DF has their share of climate science deniers too.
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