Tom Ritchford
1 min readAug 28, 2022

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You:

"All of science is wrong.

"I personally cannot solve a differential equation or set up a mathematical model. I know nothing about climatology at all, I have never taken even a single course in it. I could not solve even the most simple numerical problem in physics of chemistry.

"But I know that NASA, the NOAA, all the world's great institutions that study climatology or meteorology are all wrong, and I am right. This is because I am so veryveryverysmart.

"I am so veryveryverysmart that I think "it's all so complicated!!" is a rebuttal to literally millions of person-years of work by people who have dedicated their whole lives to studying a field that I have no knowledge of whatssoever."

https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/dunning-kruger-effect

Your immense arrogance would be funny except generations of proudly and aggressively ignorant people like you have prevented us from dealing with this inconceivably huge and terrible problem, and now we're way past the point of no return, and still you persist in equating your deliberate and wilful ignorance with the knowledge of people who have dedicated their lives to the study of science.

So in fact, you are spreading deadly lies, and that makes you a monster.

You will likely live to see the consequences of your depraved and dishonest actions. Remember this.

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