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Posts Tagged ‘investor’s business daily’

“ClimateGate” Continues to Expose Anti-Science Tendencies on the Right Wing

by Chris Mooney

It’s pretty unfair to call somebody “anti-science.” I mean, everybody likes science, right?

That’s what I always thought–at least until fairly recently. That Daniel Henninger Wall Street Journal article got me thinking otherwise, a bit–but only a bit.

But now comes a piece in Investors.com (“powered by” Investor’s Business Daily) by David J. Theroux, who is head of the Independent Institute, a think tank that in the past has been a recipient of ExxonMobil largesse. “Science is not the final arbiter of truth,” blazes the headline–but hey, we all know authors don’t write their headlines.

But the rest of the article is actually in a similar vein: (more…)

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December 14th, 2009 8:27 AM Tags: climate change, climate emails, climategate, Global Warming, investor's business daily, theroux
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