What’s that Wailing? It is the Jobian Lamentations of the Climate Scientists! By James Reed
As reported in the Leftist Guardian.com: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/25/we-have-emotions-too-climate-scientists-respond-to-attacks-on-objectivity, climate scientists are getting emotional about climate change, although I do not know when they ever stopped being emotional: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-02139-3.epdf. The idea of an objective, emotionless science needs to be debunked, we are told:
"Climate scientists who were mocked and gaslighted after speaking up about their fears for the future have said acknowledging strong emotions is vital to their work.
The researchers said these feelings should not be suppressed in an attempt to reach supposed objectivity. Seeing climate experts' fears and opinions about the climate crisis as irrelevant suggests science is separate from society and ultimately weakens it, they said.
The researchers said they had been subject to ridicule by some scientists after taking part in a large Guardian survey of experts in May, during which they and many others expressed their feelings of extreme fear about future temperature rises and the world's failure to take sufficient action. They said they had been told they were not qualified to take part in this broad discussion of the climate crisis, were spreading doom and were not impartial.
However, the researchers said that embracing their emotions was necessary to do good science and was a spur to working towards better ways of tackling the climate crisis and the rapidly increasing damage being done to the world. They also said that those dismissing their fears as doom-laden and alarmist were speaking frequently from a position of privilege in western countries, with little direct experience of the effects of the climate crisis."
The counter argument to this is that putting emotions in scientific research is highly likely to introduce even more biases into science than already exist. As Natural News.com noted:
"They're also attacking those who scrutinize them as "toxic," shifting the focus away from their scientific integrity to their emotions and trying to make critics seem like the bad guys.
One of them, Dr. Shobha Maharaj, seemed to think – or wanted people to think – the issue was actually her skin color and gender rather than questions about science, stating: "Being a woman of colour from the global south and a scientist, I'm used to having everything I say pushed back against, so I didn't at first find the trolling at all surprising, but I did find it concerning."
Apparently, these scientists believe that their predictions should just be blindly accepted and that any criticism is somehow racist or coming from a position of privilege. When someone dares to ask deeper questions about the facts or doesn't jump right on board with their doomsday scenarios, their reaction is to whine about it and talk about how people are hurting their feelings."
So much for the classical ideal of scientific objectivity, but I suppose that went with the Covid plandemic.
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