“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South,” one expert said.

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    Sorry… are you saying that a survey of what experts in a field think is happening is no indication of what is happening?

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      Apparently those brainiacs with their fancy book learnin’ and expertise are useless. We must all sift through hundreds of thousands of pages of raw data before reaching any conclusions. The entire concept of career specialization is wrong! Throw it out!

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          6 months ago

          Yeah, I used to run into you in r/skeptic a lot, fighting the good fight lol. And we both know the mods of that sub let it be overrun with all types of deniers and insane conspiracy theorists… But at least those trolls put a little more effort into it than just scoffing at experts.

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      No. I’m saying that “77% of Top …etc” is a stupid way of conveying the importance of the information.

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        6 months ago

        In what way should it have been conveyed in a simple manner that non-scientists could understand? Because Common Dreams is not a scientific journal.