Monday, December 03, 2018

Professed non-experts claim to be experts

Many climate-change deniers claim not to be scientists.  If they are not scientists, how can they claim to know with certainty there is no climate change?

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that's all.”
  • Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland
In other stories, Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall and all the king’s men and all the king’s horses couldn’t put him back together again.

When Trumpty Dumpty falls off the wall, how many of us will he take with him?