{"id":269614,"date":"2023-07-26T21:29:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=269614"},"modified":"2023-07-26T21:29:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:29:38","slug":"the-pandelusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=269614","title":{"rendered":"The Pandelusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"269626\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=269626\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-799.png?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-799.png?resize=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/2021\/11\/19\/ipcc-climate-models-keep-failing-because-they-dont-respect-physics-the-daily-sceptic-tallblokes-talkshop\/\">The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/author\/hugh-willbourn\/\">HUGH WILLBOURN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"408\" data-attachment-id=\"269617\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=269617\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/02023-07-24-14_08_54-_123784928_gettyimages-1239165181.jpg-976%C3%97549.jpeg?w=1204&amp;ssl=1 1204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve been recording the audio version of my new book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hughwillbourn.com\/book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Bug in our Thinking<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0In it I quote Carl Sagan from 1996:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><cite>We\u2019ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don\u2019t know anything about it? \u2026<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Science is more than a body of knowledge, it\u2019s a way of thinking. A way of sceptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask sceptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be sceptical of those in authority, then we\u2019re up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sagan was on the money. Every day brings news of more absurdities from charlatans in science, education, politics and media. To quote myself, from the same book: \u201cNever have so many been so wrong about so much.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this happening?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I could answer that in a couple of paragraphs I would not have had to write a whole book. Here, I will focus on just one element. Underneath all the dangerous and troubling beliefs about gender, climate, race, migration, medicine and vaccination lies a<em>\u00a0psychological\u00a0<\/em>problem. Too many people believe things that are not true. This is the new normal. Let\u2019s call it the Pandelusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pandelusion \u2013 thinking and doing the \u2018right thing\u2019 \u2013 is the worldview relentlessly promoted by most of the media and driven by bad science and big money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This doesn\u2019t require a conspiracy by the way. That is just what the profit motive will do when untrammelled by conscience or virtue. For the controlling minority of society it is extremely lucrative to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/columnists\/2023\/07\/18\/heatwave-europe-scared-by-weather-covid-nudge-unit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">promote the Pandelusion<\/a>. For the majority, the result is an expensive, destructive, disempowering rip-off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would take an encyclopaedia to itemise and refute each of the delusions one at a time. In<em>\u00a0<\/em>fact it\u00a0<em>already has<\/em>. On websites and Substacks and in books and scholarly journals millions of words have been written refuting every one of the dominant delusions with rational argument and factual evidence \u2013 yet the delusions are still in the ascendant. The encyclopaedia of hard evidence and common sense is ignored by most of the mainstream media and censored or ignored by complicit scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is extremely depressing to see that the majority of the population remain convinced by the Pandelusion. They are accustomed to being guided by orthodoxy. In good times that is not such a bad strategy. In hard times, and very specifically in these hard times, it does no good at all. All around us are hundreds of thousands of people who have been seriously injured by doing what they were told was \u2018the right thing\u2019. It takes time, independence, courage, humility, encouragement and good fortune to build the habit of trusting your own judgement even when all the facts are not available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that lockdowns and the uptake of the staggeringly \u2018safe and effective\u2019 vaccines have set the precedent, the next bonanza is the climate emergency and orthodox opinion is being boosted, adjusted and streamlined to serve the interests of those who have positioned their investments to profit from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Externalities<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you remember when environmentalists used to talk about \u2018externalities\u2019? Externalities, you may recall, are the costs of a service or product which are not paid by the immediate user but by society at large. The costs of driving a car, for example, are not just purchase, fuel and maintenance. The external costs are exhaust emissions and tyre wear particulates, the motorways, the loss of mediaeval town centres to create road systems and car parks, the loss of market share for public transport, the cost of road traffic accidents, and so on and on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is helpful and illuminating to consider externalities when assessing the overall impact of a policy. Recently, however, the term has fallen out of favour amongst governments, environmentalists and the mainstream media. Why might that be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The externalities of Net Zero are mind-bogglingly vast: environmental, economic, social and, for some, existential. Consider just one small element of the path to Net Zero: electric vehicles. The carbon cost of their manufacture means they have to be driven for nearly 10 years before there is a net carbon benefit. Cobalt mining in the Congo is environmentally destructive and exploitative of the local population. Dependency on manufacture in China creates huge political and economic weaknesses. I could go on, but you already know this and much, much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The externalities of lockdown were destructive beyond measure: the emotional abuse of elders dying alone, the sabotage of education in schools and universities, the bankruptcies and destruction of thousands upon thousands of small businesses, the depression, the abuse, the suicides and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The externalities of Covid vaccination, as we all know, without a shadow of a doubt, are \u2018extremely rare\u2019 because the vaccines are so very, very, very,\u00a0<em>very<\/em>\u00a0safe and effective. Nevertheless the vaccines have a remarkable correlation (<em>not<\/em>\u00a0causation! Heaven forfend) with a plague of evil coincidence fairies and uncounted cancers, TIAs, myocarditis, heart disease, Guillain-Barr\u00e9\u00a0syndrome, and a huge range of other ailments, injuries and disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The externalities of catering to a tiny number of transgender activists are expensive, disproportionate and insulting and dangerous to women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The externalities of woke policies in education include rendering academics too frightened to promote independence of thought. Not a great outcome for education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can stop listing externalities now \u2013 you can think of plenty of them that follow from every Government policy from migration to taxation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No wonder the mainstream doesn\u2019t talk about externalities any more. They are not to be mentioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The orthodoxy has aligned its messages across different platforms by means of helpful, fact-checking,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2021\/01\/29\/the-billionaire-takeover-of-civil-society\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">billionaire-backed NGOs<\/a>. All the bad science, the abstract thinking, the experts, the absurdities from wokery to environmental zealotry, the emotional incontinence and plain stupidity have become one overarching right think\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is all a single dictatorial blob of grandiose self-righteousness. The Pandelusion with its Pharisaic acolytes guides 100% of BBC output and at least 90% of media content throughout the Western world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The power of the Pandelusion is immense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is terrifying and horribly depressing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some days I feel utterly defeated as I read, yet again, of more moronic orthodoxy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet, and yet, I see a glimmer of hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is the weakness. Precisely because the Pandelusion has become a single, overarching, dominant orthodoxy, any flaw or weakness in any part of it can affect the whole thing. One tiny little crack anywhere in the whole monstrous edifice has the possibility of advancing, little by little by little, so that it will all, eventually, fall down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All is not lost. We don\u2019t need to challenge the whole Pandelusion or the big, embarrassing controversies about climate science confirmation bias or the magnificent safe and effective vaccines (Blessings be upon their profits forever, Amen). Now we can just chip away at one small, apparently insignificant, peripheral belief and open up one little crack. Then we can walk away and let the crack spread throughout the whole belief system \u2013 all by itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those undiscussed externalities are impinging on more and more people\u2019s everyday lives and they don\u2019t like it. As people\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-inconvenient-truth-about-heat-pumps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reject heat pumps<\/a>, sabotage Ulez cameras,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/consumer-affairs\/smart-meter-why-say-no-get-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refuse smart meters<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drive.com.au\/news\/volkswagen-cuts-ev-production-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">electric cars<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/ltns-low-traffic-neighbourhoods-london-review-protests-b953938.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protest against LTNs<\/a>\u00a0and 15-minute cities, they are discovering that those who claim to \u2018know better\u2019 know very little at all, and often, it turns out, are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drmalcolmkendrick.org\/2017\/05\/08\/its-official-statins-do-not-have-any-side-effects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">misrepresenting the science<\/a>\u00a0and even sometimes are lying. And the more they research the more inconvenient facts they unearth. In Germany a rebellion against dominant orthodoxy has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2023\/07\/10\/why-the-afd-is-on-the-rise-again-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gained power in a district council election<\/a>. In the Netherlands the Farmer-Citizen movement (the BBB) has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/northerntimes.nl\/who-are-the-bbb-the-boerburgerbeweging-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">become the third-largest political force in the country<\/a>. In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12300775\/SUE-REID-EU-react-millions-Europeans-shifting-populist-Right-wing-groups.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spain, Sweden and Italy<\/a>\u00a0there are flickers of sanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Let\u2019s talk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So let\u2019s talk about externalities. Not the big ones, just the little ones. Like, \u201cOh Net Zero! Yay! but\u2026 I\u2019m not\u00a0<em>totally sure<\/em>\u00a0about the cost-effectiveness of heat pumps.\u201d Let\u2019s say \u201cYay, Electric vehicles! \u2026 except how quickly, I wonder, will the authorities be able to upgrade the national grid to cope with charging them?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s talk about how 15-minute cities could be utterly brilliant \u2013 except maybe there might lots of traffic jams on the ring roads when you take your kids to karate. Let\u2019s talk about how marvellous furlough was, it\u2019s just a shame about inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s talk about how puzzled we are about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/igorchudov.substack.com\/p\/the-most-strident-denier-of-lab-origin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">little white lies<\/a>\u00a0from our governments, about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12126421\/Police-protesters-cup-tea.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">police who have stopped policing<\/a>, and the strange, inexplicable inaccuracy of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2023\/02\/28\/the-worse-than-useless-pandemic-models-are-back-already\/\">predictions that haven\u2019t come true<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us keep tap, tap, tapping away at the monolithic Pandelusion until we make the smallest little crack. Then in that crack, plant tiny little seeds of doubt \u2013 and walk away. The light of day will nourish those seeds and the seedlings will enlarge the crack and reality will finish the job. The hypnotic trance can be broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There has already been too much death, destruction and conflict. There will be more. But perhaps if we all keep talking we might be able to save some people and salvage a society worth living in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bug in our Thinking and the Way to Fix It<em>\u00a0is available in the U.K.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hughwillbourn.com\/book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. For the rest of the world, for the ebook \u2013 and in a week or two the audiobook \u2013 you can find it on your national Amazon store.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This article has been corrected. An earlier version incorrectly stated lithium rather than cobalt was mined in the Congo and that an electric car battery would need replacing after five years.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Underneath all the dangerous and troubling beliefs about gender, climate, race, migration, medicine and vaccination lies a\u00a0psychological\u00a0problem. Too many people believe things that are not true. This is the new normal. 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