{"id":10225,"date":"2010-02-26T19:59:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/two-posts-about-denialism-climate-change-and-otherwise-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-02-26T19:59:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:59:48","slug":"two-posts-about-denialism-climate-change-and-otherwise-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/two-posts-about-denialism-climate-change-and-otherwise-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Two posts about denialism, climate change and otherwise | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I love to write about climate change and watch the misinformation and noise fly in the comments, I will direct your attention to two very interesting articles about denialism:<\/p><p>1) My friend and noted skeptic <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theness.com\/neurologicablog\/?p=1657\">Steve Novella<\/a> writes about the meaning of scientific consensus and denialism, whether that&rsquo;s over global warming or vaccines.<\/p><p>2) An article on lies.com <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lies.com\/wp\/2010\/02\/25\/mckibben-on-why-climate-change-denial-is-like-the-o-j-trial\/\">likens global warming denialism to the O. J. Simpson trial<\/a>, saying that when faced with overwhelming evidence, Simpson&rsquo;s lawyers attacked the court <em>process<\/em> instead of the actual case. It&rsquo;s a fascinating analogy and one that strikes me as being very apt.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cda2d_lalalala_beavercanthearyou-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"lalalala_beavercanthearyou\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9909\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">I&rsquo;ll add as a bonus a link to something I wrote a while back: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/06\/09\/im-skeptical-of-denialism\/\">the difference between skepticism and denialism<\/a>. I wrote it a year or so ago, and don&rsquo;t see anything I would change today.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jw-6RaCOkn4rHpzTMTntestfFAo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cda2d_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jw-6RaCOkn4rHpzTMTntestfFAo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cda2d_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cda2d_MpxaHzmGAx4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cda2d_BzN0SPDbDA4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I love to write about climate change and watch the misinformation and noise fly in the comments, I will direct your attention to two very interesting articles about denialism:1) My friend and noted skeptic Steve Novella writes about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/two-posts-about-denialism-climate-change-and-otherwise-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}