One study. This study. Another study. All of these studies prove diddly squat. They are merely the ravings of people who have been given grants - by taxpayers generally - because they can't get useful, productive jobs with their useless degrees in bulldust. Here today, gone tomorrow. Stuff that 99.9% of people don't care about and never read.

Almost impossible to disagree with any of this! And add, we would do well to spend a couple of days of every week learning how to think investigate and reason with only our God given biological brain, with its 5 billion circuits?

And because the human brain is like human muscles, use it or lose it.

Using links to access information might be useful and save time? Get you past some arbitrary deadline?

But there is no substitute for hands on learning and developing your own internal resources via reading voluminous scholarly tomes!

Plus confirming what you've garnered via hands on experimentation. Or watch others do it for you!

Without which, all that is left, is the loudest most aggressive advocates or naysayers. Thus we burn coal and leave climate change essentially unaddressed!

Because, like the frog being slowly brought to the boil in a pot of water. We remain warm and comfortable, for now!

Educated folk still able to do all their own reasoning and critical thinking, would have mothballed their coal mines and coal fired power stations decades ago, then powered their respective better performing economies with cheaper than coal, cleaner than coal, safer than coal thorium!

Instead, we have allowed a handful of virtual dictators and we know best autocrats to mire us in debt, foreign ownership and control? Why?

Because all they care about is feathering their own nests? And lack the personal biological computing power to see just how diabolically dumb that rationale really is!

It's like going to the gym and working only on strengthening your right arm to the exclusion of all else? Then entering a marathon, only to lose the race in the first 100 metres, because of lack of conditioning and strengthening the rest of the body.

. Similarly, we do something similar to our economies by concentrating too much of our finite wealth in too few hands! And are too immersed in addictive social media too see let alone understand how we betray ourselves and generations yet unborn!
Alan B.

Agreed completely ttbn.

I was thinking as I read this tripe, here we have someone studying a pile of useless studies, done by a host of totally useless academics on a totally unnecessary subject, in pretend disciplines, just to be able to prove they have totally unnecessarily published some c##p, when grant time comes round again.

Not only that, they have all drawn excessively high salaries from the long suffering taxpayers of various countries while doing it. As for studying from books, been there, did that, & you know about the T shirt. I can remember having 5 different text books open, going from one to another trying to find what I wanted when doing my aerodynamics. Having it all at the click of a mouse is much more effective, when trying to absorbe facts & theorems.

Hasbeen: You were thinking (a novel new experience) as you were reading? I wondered where that strange burning smell was coming from?

Try and avoid that activity in the future, least you do irreparable harm to the still active grey matter, that allegedly, occupies the largely vacant space between your ears?

Though I must admit, the echo effect of such large empty space is quite entertaining, entertaining, entertaining!

I know of a couple of advertising agencies that would pay handsomely to incorporate that immicable empty space echo effect (how are you? I'm fine thanks! What color is yours? Dunno, can't see it, given the huge overhang!) in some of their RUV advertising.

You enjoy the Christmas break now y'hear! They get fewer with every passing year!
Alan B.

thanks for the laugh ttbn and Has been. You certainly cut through the bulldust.

Quite a blast there Alan. But then you have admitted you are thick enough to actually believe in the global warming scam, so your opinions are not of much value.

Do try to cheer up & have a merry Christmas. Might improve your liver problem.