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Published · transcript-backedCharles C. Mann: evaluation
31 Jan 2018 Conversations with Tyler Charles C. Mann on Shaping Tomorrow's World and the Limits to Growth
“I think that Bjorn Lomborg didn’t often grasp this in The Skeptical Environmentalist, which is something I’m familiar with, often would go beyond saying the evidence for this or that is weak to saying the evidence where it’s opposite, it must mean that the opposite is true.”
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…Yes, I know his work. And I always say that there’s weak Gary and strong Gary. And weak Gary is the idea that the evidence that carbohydrates are the way to go for heart disease is very poor. That’s weak Gary. Strong Gary is that carbohydrates are actually bad. There’s a big distinction between these two. I think that Bjorn Lomborg didn’t often grasp this in The Skeptical Environmentalist, which is something I’m familiar with, often would go beyond saying the evidence for this or that is weak to saying the evidence where it’s opposite, it must mean that the opposite is true. Now, we turn our attention back to the history of the New World. Here’s a question from a reader, and I quote, “If Napoleon had not conquered France, leading to the Louisiana Purchase, would there have been no Indian Removal Act and no American Civil War? Is Napoleon therefore responsible for the collapse of the Native American civilizations?”…
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