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What would happen to your academic career if you were to join the scientists who question whether global warming is man made or not?

I never said I am unaware of research refuting that the current and predicted increase in global temperature is not the result of human activities.

You just said that denying AGW is the same thing as believing cancer isn't real.

So scientifically, I guess I have to deduce that your career would be in serious danger if you let science get in the way of pop culture or politics at Notre Dame.

But the sample size is kinda small. Is there anyone at Notre Dame that questions whether Global Warming is caused by human activities? Did you hear that some news stations are considering banning the mention of this?

What is your background in physics that gives you the expertise to say over 95% of climate scientists are wrong?

Is that how science works? Consensus? Group think?

My hypothesis is that you're an unthinking cog in a university full of people who don't question man-made Global Warming.

I tested you in different ways to see how you responded to the stimulus and you clearly fit within the reasonable expectations of my hypothesis. Your responses were paper thin, snarky, even so petty as to compare AGW to refusing to believe in cancer or vaccines.

So scientifically, I retested you with the same stimulus, and your reaction has been to turn your argument on me personally and call me a troll.

I don't want to make any judgments before this theory is peer-reviewed, but you don't appear to exhibit the qualities of a scientist at all. Your behavior, surprisingly, is much more aligned with partisanship. And studies have shown that the reasoning centers of the brain remain 'ice cold' when partisans discuss their faith-based or ideological beliefs.

No one denies the climate is in flux, but the only interesting people in climate science today are the ones who are questioning whether its caused by man or not. And that is a fascinating body of research that is hardly settled.

I'm unaware of any scientific evidence that says cancer is fake.

Are you honestly saying that you're unaware of scientific evidence that Global Warming is a natural occurrence and not a result of actions by man?

Sounds like a fairly ridiculous thing to say. But I guess that's what I was really asking: Is academia really so politically sterilized that a scientist will deny the existence of research in a public AMA?

I guess the answer is yes.