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> co-authored by a known practitioner of large-scale scientific fraud for pay (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Willie_Soon http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Willie_Soon
by Zuider 11y ago
> co-authored by a known practitioner of large-scale scientific fraud for pay (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Willie_Soon http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Willie_Soon) particularly reputable.
Flagged for libel. It is one thing to argue a position you believe, it is quite another to smear another's character.
- cholantesh 11y agoIt wasn't libel the last time you brought it up and it isn't libel this time. Soon failed to disclose non-trivial amounts of funding that he received from parties who have a vested interest in deriding climate science. Given how often his work has failed to pass muster when scrutinized by climate scientists and skeptics, it is hard to fathom how any of this can amount tosimple incompetence.
- Zuider 11y agoThe article you linked to is almost comical in its petty malevolence, well beyond the point of self-satire. This kind of character assassination, however reprehensible, is ultimately irrelevant. If you believe Dr. Wei Hock Soon is wrong, then show where and how he is mistaken.
- cholantesh 11y agoClimate scientists have been doing that for almost 25 years at this point, and Soon's response has pretty much been to complain that he's being bullied and that science is being politicised. I find that to be actually comical, almost as much as the presumption that an intelligent and intellectually honest person could do this for as long as Soon has. And that his association with political and industrial think tanks is a non-sequitur in this regard.
- Zuider 11y agoYou jumped the shark a while back. I find it impossible to take what you write seriously any more. Like I said, comically malevolent.
- cholantesh 11y agoFWIW, I never took you seriously, because I cannot imagine a serious adult flagging someone for libel for stating an unpleasant fact.
- Zuider 11y agoI flagged you for libel because you lied.
- cholantesh 11y agoI'm not going to flag you for libel here, because I'm sure you believe this, and that is your cross to bear.
- Zuider 11y agoSo sue me. It is demonstrable that you published falsehoods.
- cholantesh 11y agoThe definition of demonstrable is not "that which I really, truly, believe from the bottom of my heart".
- dang 11y agoPlease stop, both of you.