“Global-Warming Advocates Pressure Media to Silence Skeptics,” reads the headline.
Here are excerpts from an excellent article by Wesley J. Smith:
27 Aug 2018 – Global-warming public intellectuals have warned the media that if they allow skeptics to have a voice in stories, they will boycott giving comment. From the open letter appearing in the Guardian:
Balance implies equal weight. But this then creates a false equivalence between an overwhelming scientific consensus and a lobby, heavily funded by vested interests, that exists simply to sow doubt to serve those interests. Yes, of course scientific consensus should be open to challenge — but with better science, not with spin and nonsense….
Fringe voices will protest about “free speech”. No one should prevent them from expressing their views, whether held cynically or misguidedly. However, no one is obliged to provide them with a platform, much less to appear alongside them to give the misleading impression that there is something substantive to debate.
This “We are too right to debate” variation …. will raise the acute suspicion that they are silencing dissenters because their their hypotheses are actually very debatable and they can’t stand the contest.
The “experts” don’t get to decide when “the debate is over.” The people do.
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Did you notice that part about “heavily funded by vested interests”? I’ve maintained this website for more than 20 years, and no “vested interest” has ever offered me a dime. Not ever.
And “heavily funded”? Only in my dreams.
See entire article:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/global-warming-alarmists-pressure-media-to-end-debate/
Thanks to Dean Koehler for this link
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