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Honestly what should we learn from people who are opposed to scientific reality? The only thing we need to learn is how we make the opinions of those people irrelevant. (Which is a really hard problem, as decades of inaction about climate show.)


Honestly what should we learn from people who are opposed to scientific reality?

The idea of using CO2 emissions control as a form of social control doesn't sound crazy at all to me. Without knowing anything else, I'd assume it was a valid concern at least worth discussing, and I'd assume that anyone unwilling to at discuss it reasonably is probably a malicious and dishonest person with selfish motives who should not be trusted.




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