Cranky Cartoon (EN) - Hitting the ground

This cartoon depicts the "Impossible expectations" fallacy.

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Demanding unrealistic standards of certainty before acting on the science. “Scientists can’t even predict the weather next week. How can they predict the climate in 100 years?”

Learn more about the fallacies in this graphics category in the blog post A history of FLICC: the 5 techniques of science denial


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