Skeptical Science on Nostr: Heavily paraphrasing Naomi Oreskes, "a little doubt will do ya." Policy paralysis is ...

Heavily paraphrasing Naomi Oreskes, "a little doubt will do ya."

Policy paralysis is so easy to achieve-- just give us a shred of doubt about why we might justify continuing to do business as usual and our species' facile expertise with motivated reasoning will take over.

It hardly matters what serves to halt our progress. Almost any ridiculous concept will suffice.

Here it's "scientists on Earth are wrong because... Mars."

Still in play after all these years!

https://skepticalscience.com/fact-brief-mars.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks