British Lord Stings Senators Rockefeller and Snowe: 'Uphold Free Speech or Resign'
From Breitbart.com
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Lord Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley,
has sent an open letter to Senators Rockefeller (D-WV) and Snowe (R-Maine) in
response to their recent open letter telling the CEO of ExxonMobil to cease
funding climate-skeptic scientists.
(http://ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20061212_monckton.pdf).
Lord Monckton, former policy adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,
writes: "You defy every tenet of democracy when you invite ExxonMobil to deny
itself the right to provide information to 'senior elected and appointed
government officials' who disagree with your opinion."
In what The Charleston (WV) Daily Mail has called "an intemperate attempt
to squelch debate with a hint of political consequences," Senators Rockefeller
and Snowe released an open letter dated October 30 to ExxonMobil CEO, Rex
Tillerson, insisting he end Exxon's funding of a "climate change denial
campaign." The Senators labeled scientists with whom they disagree as
"deniers," a term usually directed at "Holocaust deniers." Some voices on the
political left have called for the arrest and prosecution of skeptical
scientists. The British Foreign Secretary has said skeptics should be treated
like advocates of Islamic terror and must be denied access to the media.
Responds Lord Monckton, "Sceptics and those who have the courage to
support them are actually helpful in getting the science right. They do not,
as you improperly suggest, 'obfuscate' the issue: they assist in clarifying it
by challenging weaknesses in the 'consensus' argument and they compel
necessary corrections ...
I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious
development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the
claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to
avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear
the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your
wallet, because you're being had.
- Michael Crichton
I agree with Michael Crichton on that. Consensus science is junk science.
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