Saturday, July 26, 2014

A story not about climate change, but about climate change.

Say you want to doctor and the doctor told you you have a disease. If you get treatment you have a good chance of living a full life.  If you don't, you will surely die.  Then you go out and over the next two years you get not just one second opinion but say 2500 opinions . Of all the opinions one of them tells you you don't have the terminal disease. But that doctor works for a company that says that the disease doesn't exist.
Then you go out and ask 10000 people on the street who have heard about your diesease whether or not you have a terminal disease. Out of that ten thousand people, forty percent think the doctors are making it up. 
Would you A) Get treatment for the disease.  Or B) Believe the people who think the doctors are making it up.

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