Even the name TRUTH does not trump Trump sycophant Kelly Ann Conway's term "alternative facts." Fill in the blanks: TRUTH is to truth as ... is to ...

There's a very simple answer to this problem. If you read history, you'll know that, traditionally, servants' quarters were provided in all the best houses. No need for a return to slavery after all; indentured servitude will suffice.

True enough. The science is from the large body of scientists who have surveyed their various fields on behalf of the world's governments.

The political is that I believe them, and not you. It's purely a pragmatic choice on my part of who to place my trust in, as I confess I don't have the answers to all scientific questions at my fingers.

A couple of corrections. I should have referred to "argument" not opinion, and I shouldn't have used the word "my" in place of "the."

I've concluded that my ability to work around design flaws in Microsoft products, and even my ability to keep track of which character is used to create a comment in different programming languages, does not give me any particular insight into atmospheric physics and related fields. So I tend to go with what the vast majority of experts in the field say. Of course, perhaps they are wrong. I just don't think it's more likely that they are wrong than the teensy minority who would like us to think our society is not responsible for the current vandalism of the planet. My conviction is strengthened by discoveries like "gosh, tobacco smoking *does* cause lung cancer, after all."

My scientific opinion is presented here: https://www.ipcc.ch/

It never ceases to amaze me how people with enough technical understanding to join Slashdot can be so unmoored from reality.

Who needs psilocybin? Too much respect or love can turn people librul too.

It's always struck me as very odd that it is easy to find out the applicant/acceptance ratio, but no school of which I'm aware ever looks to see the relative success of those who attend vs. those who were admitted (or admittable) but did not attend.

Of course, for prestige schools, even that wouldn't tell you how much the school's educational process contributed to their students' success versus how much was contributed by the ability to list the school's name on the student's resume.

But it would at least be a start. If the students who were admitted but did not attend, when compared with those who attended, turn out to have similar happiness and/or incomes twenty years later, then much of what is now credited to a particular school's education might well turn out to be due simply to the filter they apply during admissions.

No schools seem interested in taking up that challenge, as far as I can tell.

Remember when 1,800 deaths sounded like a lot? It's just noise now, thanks to the US government's response to the pandemic.

Wouldn't this group of scientists, whose information is presumably a very hot topic now, do well to demonstrate how their conference can be done via video? How better to convince people that videoconferencing is now a good substitute for travel?