back when "the science" of climate change started it's assent away from fact-based, logically consistent observation based science, I knew a lot of professional scientists and engineers who 'signed on' despite the obvious inconsistencies and stopped asking the wrong questions because they realized it was necessary to continue to work: to get funding, and get published, etc. You'd have a couple beers (or shots of tequila) and they'd readily admit it was BS but what are you gonna do when you've seen what happens to those who question it.
That's a decade or more ago (maybe 2 by now?) and what is alarming is that this "the science is settled" is now believed by so many who will then accept repression of "the deniers" when even that label should be a red flag to anyone studied in science. A consequence of this new culture of suppression of inquiry, I fear, is a new kind of "dark ages" limiting progress in the sciences because we can not overcome the burdens and boundaries of established convention (which has always been needed to advance beyond those boundaries).
back when "the science" of climate change started it's assent away from fact-based, logically consistent observation based science, I knew a lot of professional scientists and engineers who 'signed on' despite the obvious inconsistencies and stopped asking the wrong questions because they realized it was necessary to continue to work: to get funding, and get published, etc. You'd have a couple beers (or shots of tequila) and they'd readily admit it was BS but what are you gonna do when you've seen what happens to those who question it.
That's a decade or more ago (maybe 2 by now?) and what is alarming is that this "the science is settled" is now believed by so many who will then accept repression of "the deniers" when even that label should be a red flag to anyone studied in science. A consequence of this new culture of suppression of inquiry, I fear, is a new kind of "dark ages" limiting progress in the sciences because we can not overcome the burdens and boundaries of established convention (which has always been needed to advance beyond those boundaries).