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OT: Skeptics vs Alarmist Cage Match unSpectacular! 17-Dec-2009 At 1:24:17 PM spicelab

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It was good to hear George dissecting one of the skeptics (and obviously Plimer's) faves - the big government taxing conspiracy angle.

It's really disappointing that decent commentators and journalists etc don't get on the front foot more and trash these and other pathetic arguments, high-school conspiracy theories and the upside-down psychology peddled by the skeptics.

Because of this failure the skeptics have gotten to the point where much of their terminology (eg "alarmists", "doomsayers", "zealots" and the whole suite of religion analogies) goes by unchallenged when it is absolutely BEGGING to be deconstructed.

Considering their jargon is absolutely fundamental to their communication strategy and 'arguments' (without it, Swine and TonyB couldn't even string a sentence together and this thread would have stopped after one page) this failure is all the more galling.

Btw Evan - great blog piece, really incisive.