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For example, one on GM foods:
"Consuming foods with ingredients derived from GM crops is no riskier than consuming foods modified by conventional plant improvement techniques."
The primary conclusion is that for a number of claims that are generally held to be true by consensus, opposition to those results show interesting correlations: opposition correlates negatively with objective knowledge (what the final test indicated that the subject knew about the field), and positively with subjective knowledge (what the subject thought they knew about the field). Those who were most opposed tended to exhibit a large gap between what they knew and what they thought they knew.
Here's the list of subjects and then I'll get to the punch line:
- GM foods
- Vaccination
- Homeopathic medicine
- Nuclear power
- Climate change
- Big bang
- Evolution
Which one wasn't like the others?
Climate change!
The question was in the same vein as the rest:Most of the warming of Earth’s average global temperature over the second half of the 20th century has been caused by human activities.
Unlike every other field listed in this research, there was a slight positive correlation between opposition to the claim and objective knowledge of the subject (see figure 2).
What other consensus viewpoints are out there where agreement with the consensus correlations with greater ignorance of the subject? Economics maybe?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2022, @09:23PM
There are some extreme weather events for which the compelling that they weren't possible in a pre-industrial climate. I'm the AC who asked you to provide a source. In fairness, I will cite my source for this: https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/explaining-extreme-events-from-a-climate-perspective/three-extreme-events-that-were-not-possible-in-a-preindustrial-climate/ [ametsoc.org]. It is not altogether obvious that there is historical precedent for the drought and heat wave in Europe. If you believe there is historical evidence, you should be able to provide evidence for it. That evidence may not be direct measurements of the temperature, precipitation, or soil moisture, but historical writings are still useful. Even today, scientists use impacts like low water levels in rivers or a lack of precipitation affecting crops as indicators to measure the severity of droughts. If these indicators were present in the past, show us the evidence.