Tom Ritchford
1 min readSep 14, 2022

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Yes, your summing up at the end perfectly describes your incredible arrogance.

"I don't need to spend one second studying science or doing math. All I need is common sense!"

Common sense told people for thousands of years that the Earth was flat and the Sun revolved around it. Common sense told people for thousands of years that heavy objects fell faster than light objects.

Only a few years before the moon landings, the New York Times printed an editorial where they claimed that rockets were impossible, due to "common sense".

You can tell in an instant that you're proudly and arrogantly ignorant of science, because the history of science is the triumph of experimentation and mathematics over common sense over and over and over and over again for thousands of fucking years.

What it comes down to is this: you know nothing about science; you know nothing about climatology; you know nothing about mathematical modelling.

And it's the aggressive, proud ignorance that allows you to prioritize "common sense" - that is, two seconds' confused thought from someone with serious mental health issues - over people who have spent their entirely lives studying science.

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