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How do you distinguish partisans from actual knowledge? The Steve Bannon philosophy of flood the zone with shit so it all looks the same seems to have killed public discourse IMO. It is easy to label everyone as partisans.

To your questions, the best explanations for climate change are human causes (and with very considerable evidence).

Women have higher pain tolerances and greater natural buoyancy, they are greatly advantaged at long distance cold water swimming. Many other sports require physical size and/or strength - so it does depend. Vaccines have no evidence of _causing_ autism, and the big paper that made that claim was retracted. I don't know about rent control and do not know what data exists.

Yeah, the answer of, yes, and here is all the evidence just doesn't seem to fly. I feel that trolling and trolls, and science illiteracy just have simply won the day.




> The Steve Bannon philosophy of flood the zone with shit so it all looks the same

FWIW, it's called the Firehose of Falsehood and the Soviets invented it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood




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