Friday, May 23, 2008 . 5/23/2008
You'll never believe this.I just got the book When Good Thinking Goes Bad today, and it's supposed to be a sort of "guidebook" on how critical thinking can go bad and be inconsistent. Thing is, the author of this book is an AGW (human-caused global warming) denier. In fact, he has a whole section on it.
In it, he admits that he is no expert on the subject but continues to sound like a denier anyway and making the mistake that there is a "debate" on whether or not global warming is happening or not. There is no debate among scientists whatsoever, only deniers making it seem like there is. Like creationists saying that there's still a debate on whether evolution is real or not, for example.
Simply put, the author of this book might as well have replaced "global warming" in that section with "evolution". It's almost funny, in an ironic way, that this guy has written a guidebook for faulty skepticism while doing that very thing. There is a difference between skepticism and denialism, Buck-O.
Labels: Denialism, Global Warming
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