Friday, February 02, 2007

On the Sisyphean Project of Gaining General Acceptance

Compare IPCC with AEI.

posted by pn at 3:28 PM  

2 Comments:

Ted F. writes ...

That Guardian story is painfully dishonest.

1:53 PM  
pn writes ...

But whatever you may think, Ted, of the Guardian's journalistic standards, the core fact reported is not in dispute. AEI is commissioning dubiety on anthropogenic climate change at $10k/crack. That's fine, so long as we remember, when the time comes to review the fruits of AEI's philanthropy, that the bare existence of a skeptical literature, in such a context, does not, by itself, supply occasion for actual skepticism.

3:51 PM  

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