Jon Stewart, God, Science, Mutant Fish And A Plea For Reason : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR

In the rolling mix of media defining modern cultural life, the loudest and most extreme voices are the ones that get the greatest attention. Even on this blog, we can see its effect. A post on climate change draws commenters, many of whom have never posted to NPR before, delivering talking points from "denier" websites that have no firm basis in science. The tone is often so nasty that recoil is the immediate reaction.
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The loudest, shrillest voices win even though they willfully mangle the science. Climate skeptic politicians generated press last winter by building igloos that "demonstrated" climate change to be a hoax and then are strangely silent when D.C. endures the hottest northern summer on planetary record.