I think your reviewer has it exactly right. I've been writing about a bunch of the wingnut AGW-deniers today, and far too many of their "arguments" are so outright childish as to be embarrassing: how can they possibly, I keep asking myself, be granted a public stage without being promptly laughed back off it?
The amazing part is that any piece of false information which serves to counter climate change that's slipped into the wingnuttia echo chamber, no matter how egregiously ridiculous it might be, no matter the obviousness of its stupidity, is circulated and recirculated all around the echo chamber as proven fact. I was reading a piece today from a few months ago by Pat Buchanan, in WorldNutsDaily, which (to summarize) dismissed climate change because evolution had been proved to be bunkum. His authority for the latter claim was a self-published Creationist tract, Eugene Windchy's The End of Darwinism. Are there not serious books about evolution in every major bookstore in the land that Buchanan might consult? Nope. He picks the loonytoons number and thinks it's the truth because it reinforces his wingnut ideology.
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I think your reviewer has it exactly right. I've been writing about a bunch of the wingnut AGW-deniers today, and far too many of their "arguments" are so outright childish as to be embarrassing: how can they possibly, I keep asking myself, be granted a public stage without being promptly laughed back off it?
The amazing part is that any piece of false information which serves to counter climate change that's slipped into the wingnuttia echo chamber, no matter how egregiously ridiculous it might be, no matter the obviousness of its stupidity, is circulated and recirculated all around the echo chamber as proven fact. I was reading a piece today from a few months ago by Pat Buchanan, in WorldNutsDaily, which (to summarize) dismissed climate change because evolution had been proved to be bunkum. His authority for the latter claim was a self-published Creationist tract, Eugene Windchy's The End of Darwinism. Are there not serious books about evolution in every major bookstore in the land that Buchanan might consult? Nope. He picks the loonytoons number and thinks it's the truth because it reinforces his wingnut ideology.