The War on Science: Why We Believe in Gravity But Not Climate Change

Why do we accept gravity, the atom, and plate tectonics without question, but draw the line at climate science? The answer is not intelligence. It is not education. It is something far more deliberate.In Episode 11 of The Climate Layer, we go deep on the war on science. Where it started, who funded it, and how it evolved from tobacco industry playbooks in the 1950s to algorithmically amplified misinformation in 2025. And more importantly, what we do about it.In this episode:Why climate science triggers identity-protective cognition in a way that gravity never willHow the fossil fuel industry borrowed the tobacco industry's doubt manufacturing playbook almost verbatimHow generative AI collapsed the cost of producing convincing misinformation almost overnightWhy debunking rarely works and what the research says actually doesWhy the fight against misinformation is won with clarity and storytelling, not outrageThe science is clear. The solutions are real. The noise is the problem.