February 6, 2012

Media Attacks Junk Sci. w/ Junk Journalism

Hank Campbell, Science 2.0


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The Wall Street Journal posted a letter from 16 scientists who are critical of climate science in general and anthropogenic warming in specific. There were numerous flaws in the letter (see Robert Cooper's Denialiasm 101 piece An Excellent Study On Denialism for the takedown) but it's an opinion piece so I took it for what it is worth; the New York Times lets Paul Krugman write on economics and that's also completely made up so opinion pieces are common and always have been.

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TAGGED: climate change, global warming, science journalism, media bias, pseudoscience

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