Science and stupefaction

October 22, 2025

At its base, the anti-climate change idiocy of Trump and those who share his scientific philistinism is inherently illogical, uninformed and plainly stupid. To say, as he often does, that the work of tens of thousands of highly qualified climate scientists is simply not believable carries some far greater implications, either about his purchase by the oil, coal and gas corporations or his utter incapacity for logical thought.

The scientific method is now understood and supported by the vast bulk of humanity. That scientific method is common across literally all areas of human knowledge, with the notable exception of economics and political science, which bear no relationship to that scientific method. All the sophisticated understandings of how the world and the universe work come from the application of that method to specific areas of human endeavour.

The logical consequence is that the vast range of technologies upon which modern life depends are products of the application of that scientific method. If you reject climate science, you are in effect saying you don’t believe in science and therefore don’t accept any of the products of that science. That leaves these dills in a bit of a pickle!