• 1984@lemmy.today
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    5 days ago

    When I was a kid, they said entire California would end up in the sea within a few years, since it’s on a earthquake fault line.

    That was 1990. :)

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      5 days ago

      Still don’t understand how people continue to “trust” the people who have a long history of predictions that never occurred. It always reminds me of a guy who pays to get “the special picks” for an NFL game. And for years the special picks guy hasn’t ever won a NFL bet

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        People trust it because scientists make a model. They don’t think about that the model makes many assumptions and if any assumption is wrong, it fails.