Peter Hadfield (journalist)

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Born (1954-07-01) 1 July 1954 (age 69)
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Last updated: 8 July 2022

Peter Hadfield (born 1 July 1954) is a British freelance journalist and author, [2] trained as a geologist, [3] who runs the YouTube channel Potholer54, [4] which has over 233,000 subscribers. [5] He has previously lived in Japan, [2] and now lives in Australia. [6] [7]

Contents

Early life and education

Peter Hadfield's father was a noted child psychiatrist, Dr. Ian Hadfield. [8]

Hadfield has a degree in geology from Kingston University.[ citation needed ] [9]

Reporting career

Hadfield wrote a weekly humour column for The Mainichi Daily News (the English edition of the Japanese-language Mainichi Shimbun ) while living in Japan. [10] He was The Sunday Times correspondent in Tokyo from 1988 to 1990, then wrote a regular column for the Daily Mail on life in Japan.

Later he became Tokyo correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph and U.S. News & World Report. He was also the Tokyo correspondent for New Scientist for 14 years. [2] His writing has appeared in other publications, such as the BBC News website [11] , USA Today, The Guardian, [12] The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, [13] The South China Morning Post and The Lancet.

In 1991 Hadfield became Far East correspondent for Monitor Radio, and reported throughout East Asia. [14] During this period, Hadfield wrote and appeared on screen regularly as a correspondent for CNN, [15] the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), ABC News (U.S.) [16] and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). [2]

Hadfield's book, "Sixty Seconds that Will Change the World," about the potential implications of an earthquake in Tokyo, was published by Sidgwick & Jackson in 1991. [17] A second revised edition was published by Pan and Tuttle in 1995 after the Kobe earthquake. [18]

In 1995, Hadfield was one of a group of reporters at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ) that interviewed Tatsusaburo Suzuki, a lieutenant colonel in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) who had served during World War II as the IJA's liaison to the Japanese nuclear weapons programme, about the activities and progression of Imperial Japan's nuclear programme over the course of the war. [19] Hadfield published an article about Suzuki's revelations in New Scientist that same year. [20] On 13 January 2024, fearing the potential that the FCCJ could one day become defunct, Hadfield uploaded the full interview to his YouTube channel, where he also expressed dismay about what he saw as the time wasted on by amateur tabloid reporters who did not understand science that asked Suzuki to explain basic facts about nuclear physics to them. [19]

More recently, he has contributed regularly to the CBC, NPR, and BBC radio programmes Costing The Earth, Science in Action , The World Tonight , Outlook and East Asia Today, as well as the ABC's Science Show. [2] [21]

YouTube career

Hadfield, known on YouTube as "Potholer54" and "Potholer54debunks", has made videos about various scientific topics, such as the science behind global warming, [22] [23] [24] the age of the Earth and debunking arguments used by young Earth creationists to claim the Earth or universe are young, [25] and for videos on how tricks of the trade in journalism can be used to fool viewers. [26] In March 2010 Hadfield penned an opinion piece on his YouTube series for The Guardian. [4]

Creationism

Hadfield has attacked the pseudoscience of created kinds, also known as baraminology, being highly critical of the creationist preacher Kent Hovind for rejecting phylogenetic taxonomy in favour of it. [27] Hadfield argues that baraminology is unscientific because it starts off with the predetermined conclusion that the Bible is correct and distorts science to fit with it. [28]

In one of Hadfield's videos, he shows how creationists like Hovind misrepresent scientific papers to claim that radiocarbon dating does not work. Hadfield showed how Hovind dishonestly used studies that detailed the unreliability of radiocarbon dating in marine organisms such as seals and molluscs to denounce radiocarbon dating as useless in all instances. In reality, radiocarbon dating is inaccurate in marine organisms because they do not directly uptake carbon-14 from the air but from marine carbonates, the production of which causes isotopic fractionation that alters the quantity of carbon-14 in the sample. Hovind was also lambasted by Hadfield for conspiratorially asserting that palaeontologists would refuse to radiocarbon date non-avian dinosaur bones because they had predetermined that they must be too old for radiocarbon dating. Hadfield sarcastically exclaimed that palaeontologists would not carbon date it because "THERE'S NO FUCKING CARBON IN IT!" and showed that Hovind himself had acknowledged this earlier when he said that the carbon in dinosaur fossils was replaced by minerals. [29]

Hadfield has been highly critical of the supposed separation between experimental and historical science advocated by creationist Ken Ham. Hadfield explained that Ham's distinction is an entirely ad hoc differentiation designed so that Ham can arbitrarily reject any scientific disciplines that conflict with his religion and deem them false, accusing Ham of working backwards from his conclusion and arguing that his entire modus operandi is to distort scientific facts to fit his beliefs. Hadfield later demonstrated that Ham himself accepts information about extinct animals such as Triceratops gained from observations and inferences that are derived through what Ham deems "historical science". [28]

Hadfield also mocked the creationist suggestion that the banana was intelligently designed by God to fit in a human hand that was put forward by Ray Comfort; Hadfield lampooned Comfort for not knowing that the fruit had been selectively bred and genetically engineered over the course of human history. [30]

Hadfield referred to the concept of a crocoduck invented by Kirk Cameron "laughable", explaining that ducks and crocodiles were part of completely different lineages that shared a most recent common ancestor in basal archosaurs that evolved in the Early Triassic, long before either birds or crocodylomorphs emerged as distinct clades. [31]

Hadfield ridiculed Chuck Missler for thinking that the theory of evolution predicted that life would spontaneously spring into existence in a jar of peanut butter. Firstly, Hadfield points out that Missler is referring to abiogenesis, which he erroneously synonymises and lumps together with evolution. Secondly, Hadfield refers to scientific evidence showing that the conditions in which the first life arose were very different from those in a sealed jar of peanut butter, making Missler's thought experiment irrelevant. [32]

Hadfield has frequently derided creationists for misunderstanding natural selection. In a notable example, he showed how Buddy Davis created a straw man of palaeontologists believing that dinosaurs' survival instinct caused them to evolve feathers so they could fly. In reality, the mutations that caused the development of feathers arose randomly and were then selected for due to being beneficial for survival. [33]

Hadfield lampooned the creationist belief of Billy Crone that the Earth must be only a few thousand years old because the Earth's magnetic field would have melted the Earth's crust after just 20,000 years and that it would have vapourised the Earth if Earth were even a million years old. Hadfield showed how Crone believed this because he read that the Earth's magnetic field has decayed since the 19th century and mistakenly inferred that it must have been excessively high in the past and continuously decayed over time. He also pointed out that this claim was also based on an erroneous belief that the magnetic field itself generated energy and imparted it on the Earth as opposed to being generated by the motion of molten metal in Earth's core. [34]

Hadfield has challenged the historicity of the Bible and debunked the pseudohistorical claims of creationists contorting the historical record to fit Biblical chronology. [35]

Climate change

Hadfield has stated that both sides in the global warming debate have made erroneous statements, saying, "while skeptics like Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and Martin Durkin fabricate a lot of their facts, many environmental activists tend to exaggerate theirs." [4]

Hadfield has made videos debunking the claims made by Christopher Monckton about climate science in public presentations; Hadfield's series on this topic is entitled "Monckton Bunkum." [36] Among other false claims, Hadfield debunked Monckton's cherry picking of start and end points in the historical global temperature record that he used to make it seem that the Earth had not been warming, [37] his confusion of forcing with sensitivity, [38] his claim that Himalayan glaciers showed no change over the past two centuries when his own sources showed otherwise, [39] misquotes of Sir James Houghton, [40] and his false assertion that the International Astronomical Union (IAU) concluded in 2004 that global warming was mostly attributable to solar forcing, the IAU having made no such claim. [41] A back-and-forth ensued, in which Monckton responded to Hadfield's video series about him on Watts Up With That?, whereupon Hadfield replied in turn. [42] [43]

Hadfield has also debunked claims that global warming stopped in 1998 made by blogger Michael Andrews and United States Senator James Inhofe, [44] and has explained that this assertion is based on arbitrarily cherry picking unusually warm years in the past as the starting point and unusually cool ones as the end point to show very little to no warming over the time interval. [45] His video about how climate change deniers have claimed that the world has been cooling since 1998 has been featured on Boing Boing, where Maggie Koerth-Baker has called it "true skepticism at its best." [46]

Hadfield has repeatedly criticised sceptics of anthropogenic global warming for not understanding the concept of climate feedbacks. While responding to an exchange between Monckton and Stefan Molyneux, Hadfield pointed out that Molyneux did not understand positive feedback, which Molyneux referred to as a "magic multiplier". [47] In a different debate with Tony Heller that ensued after Heller attempted to debunk mainstream climatological conclusions presented by Hadfield, Hadfield debunked Heller's false analogy of climate feedbacks to positive feedback loops generated by a sound amplifier. [48] As the debate went on, Heller continued to misunderstand positive feedback, prompting Hadfield to continue trying to explain it to him. [49] [50] [51]

Hadfield criticised Patrick Moore for obfuscating in a video for Prager University the relationship between global temperature and carbon dioxide over geologic time. Hadfield showed that Moore's claims could only be supported if one ignored the growing luminosity of the Sun over the course of its lifetime, something he sarcastically contrasted with Moore saying "it's the Sun, stupid!" as a way of demonstrating the irony of Moore omitting this detail from his graph. Hadfield furthermore showed that global temperatures over the Phanerozoic and solar output correlate with one another no better than global temperatures and carbon dioxide levels, which would make Moore's claims erroneous by his own shoddy methodology. Hadfield demonstrated that climate sceptics' claims that there is no correlation between carbon dioxide and global temperature can only be reached by misusing out-ox-context figures from the works of Robert A. Berner and Christopher Scotese that each agreed with the conclusion that carbon dioxide drove Phanerozoic global temperatures. [52]

Hadfield has on many occasions addressed the myth that humans only contribute 3% of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, showing how this claim was based on human emissions being only 3% of the total carbon flux, or the movement of carbon between different reservoirs within the carbon cycle. Hadfield also educated his viewers about the Suess effect, which is the enrichment in carbon-12 in the ocean-atmosphere system caused by the burning of fossil fuels, which have a disproportionately high amount of carbon-12 relative to heavier carbon isotopes. Hadfield explained how it enables scientists to calculate the magnitude of anthropogenic carbon emissions. [53] Hadfield similarly dismissed a claim made by Ian Plimer that volcanoes produce more carbon dioxide than humans, showing how Plimer never gave a source for that assertion and appeared to have made it up. [54]

Hadfield has lampooned critics of climatology who claim that carbon dioxide is beneficial because it is "plant food". He has shown that climate change deniers like Craig D. Idso and Gregory Wrightstone vastly exaggerate the effects of carbon dioxide on plant growth in order to try to convince people that burning fossil fuels is good, doing so by citing increased plant growth that happens when you increase carbon dioxide concentrations from 150 ppm to 270 ppm, in contrast to experiments that show a much lower increase in plant growth if carbon dioxide was increased from present levels to the levels projected in the future as a result of human activity. Hadfield also debunked the fabricated claim made by climate change deniers that the increase in agricultural productivity over the past century was because of carbon dioxide and not the Green Revolution and the increased use of fertilisers. [55]

Hadfield has taken aim at a number of predictions of a forthcoming "grand solar minimum" and "mini-ice age" made by Don Easterbrook, Kevin Long, Habibullo Ismailovich Abdussamatov, and others. [56] [57]

Hadfield put the British journalist James Delingpole in his crosshairs and dismantled his assertions after he misrepresented a Nature Geoscience article and claimed that it proved climate change deniers correct. [58]

Hadfield has eschewed the term "climate change denier" and does not use it. Nonetheless, he has criticised climate sceptics for their hypocrisy regarding their objection to the term, such as Patrick Moore claiming that calling climate sceptics "deniers" is a bad faith argument intended to equate them with Holocaust deniers whilst calling those who accept mainstream conclusions "deniers of naturally caused climate change". [52]

In addition to his debunking of climate change deniers, Hadfield has also disproven false claims pushed by left-wing politicians that exaggerate global warming. Al Gore and his film An Inconvenient Truth were targeted by Hadfield for misleading their audience by implying that the Greenland ice cap would melt in the near future even though scientific studies predict this will happen over many millennia. [59] Hadfield lambasted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for saying in 2019 that the world was going to end in twelve years. [60]

Expanding Earth

Hadfield has criticised and lampooned the Expanding Earth hypothesis, an obsolete hypothesis from before the discovery of plate tectonics that attempted to explain the apparent continental drift over geologic time. He has referred to the belief of comic artist Neal Adams, one proponent of the theory, that pair production in Earth's core generates extra mass as Earth supposedly expands as "New Age hippiespeak". Additionally, he also mocked James Maxlow, a geologist who continues to advocate this theory, for mistakenly referring to the Sun as a "giant blob of pure energy" after he suggested that the driver of the Earth's expansion may be the same thing as "whatever the Sun is made of". [61]

HAARP

As an example of his style of debunking, in June 2013 Hadfield revealed that a photo that was provided as evidence for a link between High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) and the 2004 tsunami in the first episode of the television show Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura , was purchased from a commercial photographer's website. [62] The photo was introduced by the TV-show's lead investigator Raheem as a picture of the Aurora borealis. Hadfield found that the photo was described by the photographer as being of the Aurora Australis. [63]

COVID-19

Hadfield has been critical of the COVID-19 lab leak theory, pointing out the falsehoods and misrepresentations of science made by many of its proponents, such as Nicholas Wade, [64] Matthew Tye, [65] and Radio France Internationale. [66] Hadfield likewise debunked false claims that significant numbers of deaths were falsely attributed to COVID-19, [67] and has called out various politicians and media outlets, such as Donald Trump, Fox News, and Sky News, for their promotion of hydroxychloroquine as a cure for COVID-19 despite no evidence supporting its efficacy as a treatment. [68] In addition, Hadfield showed how Trump's lack of understanding of the difference between case fatality rate and infection fatality rate sparked numerous conspiracy theories that scientists were exaggerating the danger of COVID-19. [69] Hadfield mocked Ted Nugent for believing that COVID-19 was the nineteenth incarnation of the coronavirus and that there were viruses named COVID-1, COVID-2, and so on. [70] Hadfield also examined a fake quote from Kary Mullis that claimed polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests do not work; the quote was actually from John Lauritsen and said not that PCR tests do not work but that they cannot determine the quantity of a given pathogen. [71]

Vaccines

Hadfield has debunked and mocked the claims of anti-vaccine activists such as that MMR vaccines are a cause of autism, an assertion based on a fraudulent paper in The Lancet by anti-vaccine activist Andrew Wakefield, among numerous other anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. [72] Michael Yeadon, an anti-vaccine activist who claimed outside of peer-reviewed medical journals that the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine could cause infertility because the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein shared a sequence of four base pairs with syncytin-1, has also come under fire by Hadfield. [73]

Pseudoarchaeology

Hadfield has criticised pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock and his Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse for their pseudohistorical claims about a "lost civilisation" prior to the Younger Dryas in a two-part video series. Hadfield revealed that Hancock had misrepresented and exaggerated numerous facts about ancient monuments such as Gunung Padang and Göbekli Tepe by suggesting that these advanced structures appear suddenly in the archaeological record despite being preceded by a record of less advanced sites indicating gradual technological development and contradicting Hancock's "lost civilisation" thesis. Hadfield further explained how Hancock's stereotypical presentation of mainstream archaeologists as dogmatic and close-minded is used to present Hancock as a voice of reason and a victim of censorship. [74] [75]

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