Is the Right Its Own Worst Enemy? | The Sceptic Ep.93

Does the Right need to compromise on its principles to win elections? And what’s really behind the shaky science of the 97% climate consensus?

In Episode 93 of the Sceptic, guest host Ellie Hodges chats to writer and commentator Nick Rendell about why the Right needs to stop preaching to the choir, explain its policies more clearly and find a way for the parties on the Right to work together.

And for our premium subscribers, Ellie talks to social scientist and author of the Valid Science Substack Dr José Duarte about the extraordinary flaws in the research behind the 97% climate consensus claim, why we should be wary of consensus claims and where genuine disagreement among climate scientists remains.

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Produced by Richard Eldred.

Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

00:00 Intro01:26 Nick Rendell on the Right’s Electoral Strategy01:31 Balancing Principles & Electoral Success04:36 Winning Over Net Zero Voters11:47 Making the Conservative Case More Convincingly15:39 The Case For a Right-Wing Electoral Pact19:48 What His Reader Backlash Reveals22:13 Political Purity & Rational Compromise25:22 Dr José Duarte on the 97% Climate Consensus25:34 Why Climate Consensus Research is Flawed26:22 Problems With Consensus Studies30:45 How The 97% Figure Was Constructed33:14 Measuring What Climate Scientists Actually Believe35:02 The Limits of Scientific Consensus37:17 Where Climate Scientists Still Disagree