Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedCharles C. Mann: belief
31 Jan 2018 Conversations with Tyler Charles C. Mann on Shaping Tomorrow's World and the Limits to Growth
“Knowing that they’re going to arouse opposition, sometimes people who do this tend to like to pick a fight. So I think he picked fights sometimes where they weren’t needed, and not just in a political sense, but in the sense that he would very strongly take a position this way or that when the evidence wasn’t that clear.”
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…Bjorn Lomborg and the Copenhagen Consensus. I just read The Skeptical Environmentalist. I’m not familiar enough with what he’s doing now to say. He contacted me about a bunch of stuff about that time. I thought what he was trying to do was valuable. I often think that people who do this tend to be this sort of person who . . . Knowing that they’re going to arouse opposition, sometimes people who do this tend to like to pick a fight. So I think he picked fights sometimes where they weren’t needed, and not just in a political sense, but in the sense that he would very strongly take a position this way or that when the evidence wasn’t that clear. I joke . . . I have a friend, Gary Taubes, who writes about diet and so forth. Yes, I know his work.…
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