23 September, 2020 – Episode 792 – Where is the Dark Energy?

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Wobbly Ring, Covid Cats, Oldest sperm, Pi Planet, Close Call, Early Arsenic Life, Interview w/ Dr. Kevin Croker re: GEODEs, Friend Zone, Stranger Danger, Chicago Race, Microbial Brains, Dissociation Center, And Much More…

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Science.

It’s the reason for the modern world

Why medicine is a thing

How technology comes to exist

A great collection of facts that have given humanity access to reliable knowledge

Reliable because it is derived rationally, based on evidence and experimentation.

Take the evidence of facts collected by thousands of scientists using the scientific method on the subject of global warming.

Increases in atmospheric carbon

Global temperature rise

Warming oceans

Melting ice sheets

Retreating glaciers

Decreased snow cover

Rising sea levels

Increases in extreme weather events

Ocean acidification

Now contrast that with a politician who says

“It’ll just start getting cooler, you just watch,

I don’t think science knows, actually,”

And while not thinking science knows is nothing new amongst politicians, cigarette manufacturers, the fossil fuel industry, religion, racists, lawyers fighting dna evidence, who ever’s job it is to convince people to wear magnets, go on a pre-packaged diet or avoid vaccinating their kids…

None of these are reliable sources of information.

Science works because it comes from the most reliable source of information humans have ever discovered… a combination of reality, rational unbiased methodology, and of course

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