Video: The Culture of Denial: Evolution, Global Warming, and Big Tobacco
Last Saturday in a thread about climate change, I wrote:
Again, I’m struck by the similarity between the techniques of global warming deniers and creationists; they both use cherry-picked data, they both make outrageous claims couched in pseudo-scientific language that sounds convincing to gullible people, they both compile lists of skeptical “scientists” that turn out to be packed with ringers, frauds, and people who never signed in the first place, and they both use quote mining.
Here’s an excellent video presentation, demonstrating that very point with graphic examples from the world of creationists and climate change deniers: