John Clauser on Scientific Truth, ChatGPT and Climate Change

Without further ado, please join me in welcoming to the stage John Clauser, two thousand twenty-two Nobel Prize winner in Physics.

I assert that real truth can only be found by observing natural phenomena.

The current world is saturated with pseudoscience, with bad science, with scientific misinformation and disinformation, and what I will call techno cons.

Perception of truth frequently differs significantly from real truth.

Moreover, given sufficient promotion and advertising, perception of truth becomes truth.

It's, it's promotion by commercial enterprise is called marketing.

You can change truth. You can claim false observations if necessary.

My favorite in this act is ChatGPT. It's very good at doing exactly that.

It has, uh, lots of man-made pseudoscience to copy and manipulate and emulate.

It can lie and cheat even better than its human mentors.

Recently, the Nobel Foundation has formed a new panel to address the issue called the International Panel on Information Environment.

They plan to model it after the UN's International Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC.

I think personally that they're making a big mistake in that effort because in my opinion, the IPCC is one of the worst sources of dangerous misinformation.

I believe that the climate change is not a crisis.

Real truth could be found if and only if you learn to recognize and use good science.

It's especially true when real truth is politically incorrect and does not reflect political business aims or desires of leaders.

Regarding climate change, the, the dominant process, I believe, has been misidentified by factors of two hundred.

Their lack of scientific knowledge allows science and pseudoscience to promote what I will refer to as techno cons, political opportunistic aims.

Very importantly, a referee must apply good calculus-based statistical methods along with good common sense.

I would also like you to consider methods used by two of my former associates at University of California Berkeley, Nobel laureates, when they were shown data, a group of data points, and told, "Look, the trend is obvious."