Truth, not just repetition
MAY I first extend admiration to the fire fighters braving the fearsome bushfires, and extend sympathy to all those experiencing the unimaginable terror and destruction.
One wonders if Bob Brown and Extinction Rebellion pedal-powered convoys are assisting at the front ferrying water, rescuing animals and saving the planet they profess to care so dearly about.
The irrevocably ingrained mainstream media and others such as omniscient teen prophetess and messiah Greta Thunberg have been predictable in attributing the drought and fires to the man-made climate change hypothesis. “Unprecedented” is a word being bandied about without limit. Unprecedented? How ancient are we told this land is, and for just what fraction of this time have records been kept?
Now to Geoff Castle (SMS 2 ED 1/1/20): You congratulated Alison Fearnley on her “letters on climate change and sustainability” and said they are “accurate and reflect the true scientific consensus”. But why do so many automatically conflate the percentage of “experts” in consensus with what is true truth and true facts?
True truth and true facts are not determined by the number of proponents/ adherents, nor by incessant repetition they stand immutable. History contains a litany of examples where experts, scientific opinion and the majority viewpoint later turned out to be erroneous. Some of us are wise enough to perceive the systematic societal brainwashing as pertains to the climate cult.
Geoff, you imply that I am among the “blissfully ignorant” and encumbered with “deluded arguments”; and state that Alison has the ability to “shoot” critics down with “facts and research”. There is a widespread belief that the peer-review process guarantees a vast body of impartial gold-standard empirical information. A previous letter of mine contained an extract that debunked this myth - from someone in the know. And this is not the only eminent person to have condemned much peer-reviewed literature.
We live in an age where the catchcry of diversity does not extend to diversity of thought in an increasing number of sacred cows. Question these and censorship, deplatforming, persecution, vehement opposition and even lost employment opportunities are likely outcomes. M.J. ELIAS, Toowoomba