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Doug Israel's avatar

It continues to amaze me how quickly the usual suspects draw the immediate conclusions that the alarmists want to hear and then every usual source disseminates it. This happens again and again and again. ANd when they are proven wrong as they are over and over again there is no retreat, no apology.

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Kevin K's avatar

FP - I strongly suggest you do an interview with Steven Koonin who wrote a book (Unsettled) on this very topic, and gave myriad examples of what he called "facts in the service of informing versus [selective] facts in the service of persuasion." He may be the ultimate Free Presser.

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