Episode 96 - Climate Protests, Pascal’s Wager, and the Duplicitous Science Press
Max gives a first hand account of the climate protests during the Yale Harvard football game which delayed the game by almost an hour. He breaks down the arguments made by climate activists, and relates it to Pascal’s Wager, a concept in probabilities that relates to infinite values, and how it can be abused. Max and Aaron discuss a couple of news articles on scientific discoveries and break down how they analyze them.
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Links and Articles
Max’s call-in on The Lisa Wexler Show
Guardian: OpEd by Protestor (uses words like “neocolonialism”)
Wikipedia: Pascal’s Wager
Article from 1992: Uses Pascal’s Wager to Push for Climate Policy
LA Times: Flip Flops on Red Meat
The old Food Guide Pyramid
MIT News: Better Sleep, Better Grades
Related Episodes
Episode 94 on Infinite Magnitudes
Episode 81 on Junk Science
Episode 78 on Bayesian Thinking
Episode 0 on Bayes Rule
