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Joe Potts's avatar

Rising to eclipse the Global Warming Hoax: the Anti-Semitism Hoax. In both, it is the RESPONSE to the hoax that is by far the most to be feared.

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Jonas's avatar

Just curious, sir: hWhen you re-hash old articles like this, are they chosen at random? Or specifically curated?

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Ben L's avatar

And would you change anything given 19 more years of history?

What about specifically rare events, like the bronze age collapse ?

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Alan's avatar

I also like that most people deploy the fall of the Weimar Republic to talk about the dangers of an inflationary spiral when it actually collapsed in a deflationary one.

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Daniel Reeves's avatar

Hi from the future! You said "good reason to expect global warming to be milder than models predict" and you, impressively, operationalized that as a wager with Yoram Bauman:

https://manifold.markets/dreev/will-bryan-caplan-win-his-climate-b

But, as is visually clear from the temperature graph, the climate models turned out to be spot on. A rare instance of an incorrect prediction from you!

I'm getting tempted to offer you another wager, this time for reading Toby Ord's _The Precipice_. It lays out the case meticulously for alarmism on many fronts and, in my opinion, deftly demolishes the "what me worry" stance.

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Antipopulist's avatar

Nothing ever happens

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Scott Patton's avatar

Rackets, in their many forms, are eternal.

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William Meller's avatar

Dickens or a French proverb?

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Michael Barry's avatar

I love love love this!

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