RE: Sceptics and Climate Sceptics
June 23, 2011 at 8:50 pm
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2011 at 8:54 pm by theVOID.)
(June 23, 2011 at 6:05 am)martin02 Wrote: Dear media,
Please stop referring to climate sceptics as "sceptics". The terms are not interchangeable.
Yours sincerely,
Annoyed.
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realise Sceptic meant "Agrees with loosely affiliated group of people x".
Sceptic means "a person who habitually doubts the authenticity of accepted beliefs", it says nothing about whether or not they are correct or scientific or rational or even that they have considered that which they are doubting.
Perhaps the Skeptics movement should have chosen a label more like "Scientific Skeptics" or "Rational debunkers" rather than something that can often accurately describe some positions contrary to their own - Now they're upset that "climate change deniers" are correctly using the term sceptic in regards to their stance on the accepted position? Tough shit.
Yours sincerely,
theVOID (Not a climate change sceptic).
(June 23, 2011 at 7:25 pm)SpatiumTempusque Wrote: That god dam media is always screwing us over!
Yeah, because you're the product. The media shills aren't out to give you good TV, they're out to sell you to the advertisers. The audience is the bag of chips to the corporations fat kid and the media are the checkout operator.
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