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The Trick (2021)
Scientists Naivety used as a Climate denier weapon
Despite the climates deniers attempts in these reviews to misrepresent the story, the dramatizes the complexity of science and how the media's attempts to simplify it distorts it. The so called 'Climategate affair' was nothing of the sort, no data was hidden it just wasn't used when it became clear that some unknown process was causing it to no longer match actual temperature readings. This is the data derived from tree ring data which up to the 1960's was a close match to actual temperature readings but from the 60's onward diverged and stopped tracking the actual temperature readings. Research in the 90's and 2000's indicate this was due human activity impacting tree growth rates (pollution, acid rain, ozone depletion amongst others). The actual issue the hacked emails revealed was not corruption but rather mismatch between scientific expectations where considerations like the balance of probabilities and lack of certainty are part of how science works and the political requirement for certainty and definite answers. This combined with the affected individuals lack of experience with dealing with the media and the public lead to innocent actions appearing to be suspicious.
The Ghosts of Borley Rectory (2021)
And interestiing telling of a real story
It isn't fair to judge this film as a genre ghost story, because it isn't. It's a retelling of real story from the 1920's and should be judged as such. As a based on a True Story tell it reasonably recreates the story as told in the papers of the time. There have been a number of films and TV plays retelling the story over the last few years and this is one of the better ones with good acting from Wilcox, Sands and Baker and some interesting photography and direction. So if you watching this in expectation of a 'The Conjuring' style story are going to be disappointed but if a story of another time when the people where recovering from the impacts of a mass casualty war with an attendant growth in belief in the supernatural then this will be of interest.