We are now entering a General Election during which a myriad issues will be considered before a decision is made by the people of Britain.
Many of them will be related to creating the increased growth in our economy, so essential to the provision of the services and support that we need.
One of the main underlying problems in our sluggish growth is the cost of energy in Britain.
Could it possibly be that the need for us to decarbonize our industry is a fallacy based on pseudoscience?
There have been many failed pseudoscience movements in the past. We may think that we now live in an age of ‘evidence based decision making’, but is there a real risk that the rise of climate superstitions may plunge us into a new dark age?
Pseudoscience movements did not rise in the past because they lacked support so that weight of numbers cannot be used as evidence in their defence. As an example, when Einstein was told about the book “100 authors against Einstein”, he merely replied to say: “If I were wrong, then one would have been enough”!
I am sad to see that every day our politicians pour billions into failed green energy policies intended to address what I believe may be a non-problem.
A huge ‘clan’ of climate modellers constantly urge us to accept their predictions as though they were a source of truth. But their output may only be a particular ‘truth’ based on the assumptions made in their models.
Despite their efforts, they may not actually be ‘champions of reason’ and are all but impervious to any arguments based on logic and reason which contradict their prejudices.
People can be true believers about the most absurd things such as ‘settled science’.
What really matters, now, is what we voters believe because we vote for our leaders.
We don’t have to accept the prejudices of all those people who call themselves ‘experts’ and we can make up our own minds about who to believe
Many issues only look like superstition and implausible fallacy if you are looking in from the outside.
I hope that all voters use their power to look carefully in to the issues in the election and can identify any such implausible fallacies.
But we shall all see in July! — R. SHEPPARD, Beckingham.
