content: "The housing crisis isn't real because the banks wouldn't be willing to sell subprime mortgages since they'd take a bath if it was really a bubble that was about to burst." The investment banks were selling dogshit stocks and getting them rated as AAA by the very institutions that were tasked with validating whether or not they were good investments. They did so because short-term greed was far more pleasant to consider than the prospect of an 18-wheeler heading right for them. Coming to a conclusion about a scientific matter based on the ability of investors to weigh the evidence and overcome short-term greed for long-term wisdom is an extremely poor suggestion if your goal is to discover the truth. Also, even though Pena was being accosted by an overly emotional woman in mother-bear-defense-mode, his conduct during that Q&A clip is reprehensible. Nothing about his demeanor is appropriate if the goal is get people to believe him based on the merits of his argument rather than the conviction with which he speaks.