{"id":8156,"date":"2010-02-09T14:08:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T14:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/hitting-back-against-the-new-war-on-science-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T14:08:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T14:08:07","slug":"hitting-back-against-the-new-war-on-science-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/hitting-back-against-the-new-war-on-science-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"Hitting Back Against the New War on Science | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&rsquo;t read all the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/plagiarism-conspiracies-felonies-breaking-out-wegman-file\">new material <\/a>yet that my good friends at DeSmogBlog are producing. But I have long been suspicious of the attacks on leading climate researchers, like the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/02\/04\/penn-state-michael-mann-hockey-stick-science\/\">recently vindicated Michael Mann<\/a>, because they are so obviously diversionary, and yet also so obviously strategic.<\/p><p>There is no doubt that those attacks have been mounting; I believe a new and full scale &ldquo;war on science&rdquo; is afoot in the climate arena, something I hope to say more about shortly.<\/p><p>But in the meantime, it appears that following ClimateGate and GlacierGate, we are once again getting <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/deepclimate.org\/2010\/02\/08\/steve-mcintyre-and-ross-mckitrick-part-2-barton-wegman\/\">some revelations<\/a> taking on the other side. Maybe this means the pendulum will shift, and good science can move back off the ropes, where it has been for too long. We&rsquo;ll see. I&rsquo;ll be watching closely.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/dUMP2qT2kKm-HKptAPVvpccZFGw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b595d_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/dUMP2qT2kKm-HKptAPVvpccZFGw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b595d_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\/b595d_TAbtc3Tp6xI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&rsquo;t read all the new material yet that my good friends at DeSmogBlog are producing. But I have long been suspicious of the attacks on leading climate researchers, like the recently vindicated Michael Mann, because they are so obviously &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/hitting-back-against-the-new-war-on-science-the-intersection.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-8156","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\/8156"}],"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=8156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}