AdamB wrote:Over the years I have noticed that people who can't think for themselves...will provide a reference (or cut and paste some huge amount of text) and then say "see! It says there is going to be doom!!".
This is the same impulse that cause people to believe in fake-news. They only believe what they cherry-pick on google. Abiotic oil, aliens, whatever. There's a link for it! Doesn't mean it's worth a damn to convince someone, though.
The only difference between the random banging on the keyboard here and a blog is presentation. All of us can pretend we're citizen journalists or self-professed expert all we want. Just to go blogspot and start a blog. But it's the substance of the argument that counts, not the style of presentation.