re: #522 Charles Johnson

By the way — that tweet I posted above from Jim Lakely is pretty good evidence that there are people at the Heartland Institute who behave extremely unprofessionally. If one of the arguments that the strategy memo was faked is that the language seems unprofessional and almost juvenile, just take a look at that tweet from Heartland’s official spokesman.

The argument is not that the language is unprofessional or juvenile, but that it doesn’t fit the mindset of a denier, or, at least, that it’s not what a denier would confess to. Deniers don’t think of themselves as dissuading the teaching of science, undermining research and they don’t call themselves anti-climate.