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His famous TED talk against doing anything about climate change (a position which I think he later rescinded?) and instead focusing those funds on health and poverty reduction instead is littered with it, and based on a false assumption to begin with; that there is a pile of money that is already set aside and we're all in charge of directing it.

The reality is far more complicated. We aren't taking money away from fighting Malaria when we raise taxes on gas guzzling cars, to give just one example.



You're disagreeing with his policy position. But where did he misrepresent data?


I just explained that. He misrepresents the data by presenting it as an either or (either we fight climate change OR we fight poverty) when it isn't. That misrepresentation distorts how you interpret all the data in his talk.

I'm not interested in nit picking back and forth. Go defend Rosling to someone else.


I have no idea who Rosling is. That's just not what "misrepresent data" means.


But that's not a data misrepresentation. It's a paradigm misrepresentation.


In which TED talk did he advocate against doing anything about climate change?


Have you conflated Bjorn Lomborg and Hans Rosling?


>His famous TED talk against doing anything about climate change

Could you link that talk?




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