That's a good read, but I think he treads too lightly around a very obvious consideration: People are overwhelmingly willing to believe things which keep them in a job and overwhelmingly unwilling to believe things that may cost them a job.
Let's posit that the data is iffy, possible but by no means certain.....What's the chance that somebody working on governent grant money to study *climate change* is going to reach a conclusion that climate change is not a man-made phenomena and requires no government intervention?
I'd say pretty darn small....1-in-10 at the most, so that 1 goes to the back of the grant money line and the other 9 go to the front. It doesn't take long before...voila!!!!....there's a heavy consensus that climate change is a fact that we must do something (all the while pumping grant money to the scientists who tell us this).
Science does not exist in some political vacuum where money and political pressure are irrelevant and the only thing that matters is the scientific process.
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