Scientists’ Integrity

If you’re a conspiracy theorist who believes that only 3% of scientists are honest, you most certainly have never known anyone who plays a role in this discipline.

Now, you don’t have to be a QAnon/MAGA  Trump supporter to harbor this type of BS in your mind.  A few years ago, I attended a lecture at the University of California at Santa Barbara where the speaker asserted that science, especially climate science, is now a matter of politics, rather than science per se, and that the subject of climate change is being forced upon us by people with PhDs whose work is all about government funding that has no basis in reality.

That’s quite an accusation, given, as it was, without any evidence.  The president of the university got a letter from me the next day. Some random guy is impugning the integrity of tens of thousands of our world’s most intelligent people?

If you happen to be an honest person who for some reason wants to maintain this asinine idea, do yourself a favor.  Make a few phone calls, or send a few emails to the people who have dedicated their entire adult lives to understanding the phenomenon of global warming.

That’s what I did, about 15 years ago, in the course of writing my four books.  Speaking with real scientists does wonders in cleansing oneself of ignorance.