Climate change activists want to redefine what counts as scientific proof to make it harder to rebut their alarmist claims.
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[T]he hard but just rule [of science] is that if the ideas didn’t work, you must throw them away.
— Carl Sagan1
Back in the 1960s, the British academic establishment was rather excited about the work of Karl Popper, the philosopher who developed the concept of empirical falsification. Popper was keen to define the demarcation between the scientific and that which only mimics empiricism and scientism.
When one reads Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life,1 the rules in isolation come across as eminently sensible; however, many of the digressions in Peterson’s book strike one as bombastic. It does not require special consideration to recognize the bombast.
Religion vs Science
