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This is just ad hominem. You might as well say "I am politically on the left and I don't like the Cato Institute". It would be more honest. As an aside, the Ca
by jacoblyles 17y ago
This is just ad hominem. You might as well say "I am politically on the left and I don't like the Cato Institute". It would be more honest.
As an aside, the Cato Institute turned down a donation from Fannie Mae before the financial crash so as to avoid the appearance of bias in their advocacy, so I have a bit of respect for them. How many think-tanks would do the same?
Yes, they were founded with a gift from the Koch families decades ago, but does that invalidate the work of Michaels, who by all appearances is a climate scientist that has published real research? Should we dismiss his thoughts outright and not listen to what he has to say?
(Update: a link below shows 3/4 of Cato's annual funding comes from individual donations, only 2% comes from corporations. Presumably, the rest comes from non-profit foundations.)
Sorry, I accidentally up-voted you when attempting to do the opposite.
- DanielBMarkham 17y agometa-note: I've noticed a tendency on HN for commenters to impeach people sometimes without good reason (this case may or may not be a good example, that's not the point) On several articles today the comments basically boiled down to an ad-hominem -- and this was on subjects as far-ranging as naval warfare, startups, science, etc. I'd like to call it out more, but there's so much of it -- it's a lost cause, I think.
- jpwagner 17y agoUnfortunately, it seems even more prevalent in the real world...