"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:
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 Wednesday August 24 2022, @07:02AM
I literally told you how to see the evidence for yourself, two clicks away from this page. The evidence is in the journal papers. You refuse to click the links and look at the papers, then claim I've presented no evidence, which is basically Pacled-level laziness and stupidity. Your denials might be even stupider than aristarchus claiming that he doesn't have sock puppets, which is truly remarkable. In contrast, when you finally got around to mentioning specific droughts that you stated were on par with the current drought in the UK, I accepted your statement in good faith. You are intentionally being obstinate, just like Pacleds and aristarchus. Holy fuck, your school teachers must have hated dealing with a student who apparently was that lazy.
BS. Models have already been verified against future data: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-models-are-getting-future-warming-projections-right/ [nasa.gov].
FatPhil's reply to your comment noted that your source is unreliable. You made no attempt to defend the accuracy of your source. That tells me that your comment should be ignored as it is highly likely to be BS. Even if your source wasn't BS, you admit that given the correct CO2 concentrations in the models, they do a really good job of predicting temperatures.
It's not worth my time to discuss this topic with someone who can't be bothered to click a link, then uses his own laziness as an excuse to say that no evidence has been presented. Until you improve the quality of your posting, I'll just stick to pondering whether you're a Pacled because of the extreme laziness, or if you're a Ferengi because of your worship of capitalism. If you want good discussion, post better comments.