Brexit & Broadcasting

Cornucopia

I don't see why Doctors would be any more qualified to comment on climate change than any other professional without a qualification in environmental science. (Like me, for example).

I note that this is 10,000 Doctors (which is an achievement, though they are presumably not all medical doctors), but it's not a medically significant proportion of the 150,000 Medical Doctors that there actually are in the UK.

Some of their hyperbole is irresponsible, IMHO. I'm not sure that all of their "facts" are true, either. (Or of the ones that could be true, whether they are a consequence of climate change). It's tricky, isn't it, when a group of people who lack credible qualifications to take a lead, try to do so anyway, and expect to get away with using hyperbole and half-truths to influence the democratic process.

You accept that UK plastic being dumped at sea is a fiction, though? That point, whether you agree with it or not, suggests argument from factoid and your reference confirms it.


edit: In an idle moment, I tried to fact check this: "We have already lost ... most of our wild animals".

Apparently (though not that surprisingly), science doesn't even know how many TYPES of animal there are. The estimate is 1-2 million species of animal out of 8+ million species of life-form. Beyond that there are wildly varying estimates for the population of certain species and certain groups. For example, there are an estimated 10,000 trillion ants. One estimate of the total animal population is 20 quintillion.

So we can only speculate on what the good doctors actually meant, because it's pretty clear that they didn't mean the loss of more than 10 quintillion animals or even the loss of 0.5-1 million species.

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Doc_N wrote: »

Older, wiser folk? Theresa May? Boris Johnson?

Aren't they the "intelligent and educated" politicians, you were lauding in Post 7 :huh:

POPPYOSCAR

Doc_N wrote: »

And that’s because the intelligence and education of the average MP is considerably higher than the average voter. You may not like it, but it’s certainly true, and it’s to be hoped they can still stop the outcome of trusting the electorate with a key decision they were plainly unable to grasp, fed by lies from Johnson, Gove et al.

You just have to be joking.

This lot are a bunch of muppets!

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Doc_N wrote: »

And that’s because the intelligence and education of the average MP is considerably higher than the average voter.

Doc_N wrote: »

Older, wiser folk? Theresa May? Boris Johnson?

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

You just have to be joking.

This lot are a bunch of muppets!

Well you have to give him credit for being consistent in his views. :rotfl:

He's a troll, don't bite.

onomatopoeia99

Colin_Maybe wrote: »

So you'd rather the decision to leave was left in the hands of inexperienced kids with no knowledge of how anything works (starting with washing machines and going up) who have all of their 'thoughts' supplied by someone else on social media? As opposed to the older, wiser folk who have seen it all and know exactly how the world works and can think for themselves?

My parents are older, wiser folk who have their 'thoughts' supplied by the editor of the Daily Mail.


Is that better?

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onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

My parents are older, wiser folk who have their 'thoughts' supplied by the editor of the Daily Mail.


Is that better?

You'd have to ask your parents that question wouldn't you?