{"id":30404,"date":"2010-11-07T09:11:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/when-arguing-with-%e2%80%98bots-use-a-%e2%80%98bot-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T09:11:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:11:46","slug":"when-arguing-with-%e2%80%98bots-use-a-%e2%80%98bot-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/when-arguing-with-%e2%80%98bots-use-a-%e2%80%98bot-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"When arguing with \u2018bots, use a \u2018bot | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I see a lot of the same, tired, and totally wrong arguments about global warming over and over again whenever I write about it. \"The other planets are warming!\", \"In the 70s scientists said the Earth was cooling!\", \"The climate scientists were caught faking their data!\"<\/p>

Wrong, wrong, and wrong. It’s almost as if the people making so much noise against the idea of global warming are robots, just repeating their arguments in the hope — sadly, probably correctly — that people will be swayed by repetition.<\/p>

Software developer Nigel Leck feels the same way, so he created a ‘bot for Twitter<\/a> that scans for key words used by climate change denialists and tweets automatic rebuttals to the most common \"arguments\". It’s pretty awesome: it posts a short, pithy debunking with a link to sites for more detail. The ‘bot is called AI_AGW and you can follow it on Twitter<\/a> (note: it tweets a lot<\/em>).<\/p>

Pretty sweet idea! Now we just need one for homeopaths, anti-vaxxers, 2012ers, creationists, chiropractors, UFOers…<\/p>

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Tip o’ the thermometer to Jennifer Lynn Hachigian<\/a> and many others.<\/em>

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