Discussion on Truth and Science
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.
Its, its 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 are 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, I think
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."
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