Austin Glass
Sep 5, 2018 · 1 min read

I would say that most studies that give a vague figure about saved lives aren’t really scientific. Science is about what you can prove. “Saved lives” in this context means what exactly? We don’t have alternative universes with which we can make a comparison. So “saved lives” is speculative. We don’t know that there would be any change at all and we can never prove whether or not a prediction was right after the fact. Which is why it isn’t scientific.

The point here is that you are trying to claim that “science” is on one side of an issue, but your evidence of this isn’t scientific at all. It is exactly this kind of speculation which turns people into skeptics or “deniers”. If you want to claim the mantle of science then make your claims based on actual science. I am not even saying that you are wrong here in the big picture, just that the way you are arguing is ineffective if you are trying to convince people that don’t already think what you do.

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