A Strange Faith

Maybe 95% of the world's scientists believe our climate is changing. Where do the 5%  come from, those who deny climate change?  Some of them are sociopaths. Statistics tell us that 1% of the population is sociopathic, which means that if we have 10 million scientists in the world, roughly 100,000 may be sociopaths. Another percentage of scientists is this or that and so forth.

Obviously 95% of scientists can be wrong about the climate. But I'm in no position to challenge them on climate change. I'm not expert. I don't believe that I know more about climate change than climate scientists do. I'm not qualified to read the 95% and then the 5% and then to decide which side is right. For me to attempt that would be absurd. It would be based on a strange faith that I know more than the experts.

There are people who have this strange faith in themselves. The polls show that nearly all of them are middle class and college educated.

Fortunately there are major organizations qualified to judge medical and scientific claims, including the World Health Organization and the National Cancer Institute. In minutes on the Internet you can find out what most scientists think about vaccinations, fluoridated water, etc. You can do this on your own. Then you can support the scientists or you can join the 5% who tell us that the climate isn't changing, that vaccinations cause autism or that drinking fluoridated water lowers your IQ.