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• Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  You almost got it right. Writer, singular, just Mark Tauger. Harvard? Lomonosov? Maybe Oxford? Nope, associate professor in West Virginia.

  You know why? Because Mark is the only one with this position and it is widely contested and “against the consensus”. He’s the guy being paid by BP to deny climate change that all facebook uncles cling to.

  Here’s what his own university has to say about him:

  Taugers findings, which are controversial in academic circles, are based on harvest data recorded by peasants who were members of Soviet collective farms.

  So… Yeah. I’ll side with the freaking Russian duma on this one (not something I often say).

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  • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    And you’ve cited nobody, you’ve just asserted that you have consensus on your side based on nothing and demanded to be proven wrong, and then screeching “that doesn’t count!” when you are

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