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Back to episode — Part 1 of 2 - Episode 2408 CWSA 03/09/24

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a study that says you might be able to slow your biological aging by eating less. How many times have you heard this story? I feel like this is the millionth study that showed us. Maybe for the last 30 years, 40 years, haven't we been hearing the same study just repeated every year for 40 years? I'm not alone in that, right? But here's what's left out, and why I consider this fake science. Fake s…

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nt to do in terms of reducing aircraft contribution to CO2. So they're trying to figure out how to model just what would be different if they get a greener type of jet fuel.

So here's something that's embedded in the story that if you didn't notice it you wouldn't know that it debunked all models. Within the story saying how they're going to create a model is a paragraph that debunks all models. They don't call it out that way. You just have to notice it.

All right, here's that paragraph. It says the rumor has it that those involved with the modeling process can't find common ground regarding the actual impact of corn usage in the synthesis. Some believe that it should be weighted with a higher penalty since carbon generation occurs during the harvesting phase. The ethanol industry wants to see its carbon impact as low as possible in order to blah blah blah.

All right, did you catch it? Yeah, in that was the debunking of all climate models. How many of you saw it?

All right, here's what you should say. The climate models are completely dependent on the assumptions. The model is not even important. The assumptions they make about how important it is to, let's say just using their example, to consider or not consider the time of the season when you're picking the corn or something like that. So you could simply make an assumption that would completely change the outcome.

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is this a special case? Is this the one time somebody built a projection model in which the assumptions really drove the output? No, it's the only way it can be. There's no other way it can be. In the real world the assumptions that the study people put into it determines the output. That's the opposite of science. It's the opposite. You can't be more opposite than the people sitting in a room deb…

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