It's because it's the idea of credibility. They've done tonnes of studies on people and find that if someone wears a uniform, people perceive them to be trustworthy and correct even when they say the wrong thing. On top of that if you're at the top of one field or well known in that field, people think you're well versed on other topics too.

For instance, put a lab coat on some idiot and dress them up and make them look clean and then get an audience, then get the lab coat guy to say "The sky is the color red for x and y reason", then watch as people in the audience believe it and retell the lie to people later on. Then watch if you get three or four people in lab coats to do it to reinforce the lie and suddenly everyone in the audience believes it despite their brains seeing a blue sky moments later.

It's pretty fucked but thats how the climate change lie spreads. They get some shills, dress them up or find the right people, get them to tell the lie, find more "scientists" to reinforce the lie and then say "the consensus from scientists is that climate change will kill us in 20 years" (i.e find scientists in some other field like computer science or mathematics to repeat the lie, notice the vague meaning of "scientists", does that mean climate scientists or chemical scientists? Or does it really mean a marine biologist or computer scientist? Either way, just say "Scientists" and be vague and suddenly it's a "consensus amongst scientists") and then teach it in schools to reinforce the belief in children to cement the idea in future generations, wait and repeat this for 20 years and then find a "new discovery" or change the scientific idea as to why said event, in this instance climate change, has not happened but have enough people repeat the new lie and there ya go. You just proliferated a complete lie, but had enough credibility behind it to keep it around. I also forgot, as soon as anyone comes out and says anything to reject the claim, they slam them as a kook or some crazy individual who's not fully informed or not an actual scientist. Think about Bob Lazar and his claims about Area S4, everyone was saying he was a kook and that he was makin stuff up but so much of what he has said has come true like the hand scanners or S4 existing or him working at S4 and going to college at MIT or that the U.S Government has made contact with alien life or at the very least knows of their existence.

It's the same reason the new "ice age" didn't happen when 50 years ago they were saying it all day long how it was going to doom us. Or how we never ran out of oil when the oil crisis happened in the 70's, despite them saying there's not enough oil to last humanity for decades to come. Just straight up lie repeated by "credible" people can fool the logical part of your brain, because you think "I'm not a scientist, so I guess they're just right and know what they're talking about".

It's because it's the idea of credibility. They've done tonnes of studies on people and find that if someone wears a uniform, people perceive them to be trustworthy and correct even when they say the wrong thing. On top of that if you're at the top of one field or well known in that field, people think you're well versed on other topics too.

For instance, put a lab coat on some idiot and dress them up and make them look clean and then get an audience, then get the lab coat guy to say "The sky is the color red for x and y reason", then watch as people in the audience believe it and retell the lie to people later on. Then watch if you get three or four people in lab coats to do it to reinforce the lie and suddenly everyone in the audience believes it despite their brains seeing a blue sky moments later.

It's pretty fucked but thats how the climate change lie spreads. They get some shills, dress them up or find the right people, get them to tell the lie, find more "scientists" to reinforce the lie and then say "the consensus from scientists is that climate change will kill us in 20 years" (i.e find scientists in some other field like computer science or mathematics to repeat the lie, notice the vague meaning of "scientists", does that mean climate scientists or chemical scientists? Or does it really mean a marine biologist or computer scientist? Either way, just say "Scientists" and be vague and suddenly it's a "consensus amongst scientists") and then teach it in schools to reinforce the belief in children to cement the idea in future generations, wait and repeat this for 20 years and then find a "new discovery" or change the scientific idea as to why said event, in this instance climate change, has not happened but have enough people repeat the new lie and there ya go. You just proliferated a complete lie, but had enough credibility behind it to keep it around. I also forgot, as soon as anyone comes out and says anything to reject the claim, they slam them as a kook or some crazy individual who's not fully informed or not an actual scientist. Think about Bob Lazar and his claims about Area S4, everyone was saying he was a kook and that he was makin stuff up but so much of what he has said has come true like the hand scanners or S4 existing or that the U.S Government has made contact with alien life or at the very least knows of their existence.

It's the same reason the new "ice age" didn't happen when 50 years ago they were saying it all day long how it was going to doom us. Or how we never ran out of oil when the oil crisis happened in the 70's, despite them saying there's not enough oil to last humanity for decades to come. Just straight up lie repeated by "credible" people can fool the logical part of your brain, because you think "I'm not a scientist, so I guess they're just right and know what they're talking about".