Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something.
This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.
They didn’t understand what they were doing.I’m afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.
I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.
You know what’s wrong with scientific power? It’s a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.