Sunday, September 18, 2011

"Dark day" for award-winning climate change propaganda site

Roger Pielke Sr at the SS.com: A dark day in the climate science debate « Shub Niggurath Climate
The propaganda website ‘SkepticalScience.com’, or SS.com in short, strives to serve as a ‘one-stop shop for all consensus communication needs’ kind of an outlet....
One of the main selling points of the website, is a falsetto neutral demeanour in design and tone.
...Those outside this process however, can simply fail to distinguish an attack on a person, and attacks on ideas. In other words, this distinction is habitually missed. From a systematized demonology instead, a simplistic world-view arises: “wrong ideas are expressed by bad people”. Such a demonology finds it easy to attach labels or tags to individuals.

An example can been seen on the SS website sidebar graphic, which contains such puerile captions as shown:

Labeling of scientists

The juvenility on display was objected to, by climate scientist Roger Pielke Sr.
Flashback: SkepticalScience’s John Cook Wins Eureka Award For Advancement Of Climate Change Knowledge | ThinkProgress
For his work in communicating science to an online audience, Cook has won the $10,000 2011 Eureka Prize for Advancement of Climate Change Knowledge. The prize is part of the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, “the most prestigious awards in Australian science.”

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