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… climate risks. But there’s a problem: The advocates are responding to a bad faith argument because anti-climate action groups never say what level of scientific certainty would be necessary to justify climate policy.

A Field Guide to Bad Faith Arguments
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Oct 11, 2018·1 min read

Known to students of philosophy as ‘falsifiability.’ Not only will we not say what we will accept as proof of your position, we refuse to recognize any condition or argument that constitutes disproof our ours. This creates a perpetual stalemate.

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