I don't believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.
Thanks for highlighting this, because this is just
wrong. You do NOT let your emotions run rampant while performing delicate analysis. Not only is there the near certainty that any initial reaction will completely color any subsequent conclusions, and the fact that an emotional reaction will interfere with any attempts to double-check your work as the emotion will be remembered and you'll work back from there, thus resulting in a "check" that starts with the assumption that your conclusion is true; there's the question of whether it's even a reaction to what's in front of you to begin with, for there's always the possibility that your brain skewed things from the start in order to line things up so as to fulfill a desire to have that emotion.
His behavior lends credence to the last. The depth of the theatrics is in line with the conclusion that he
wanted something to be theatrical over, especially in light of the fact that the Climategate emails can and have been logically and properly explained. When you take away the deniers cherry-picking things that, out of context would likely lead to the misinterpretation of wrongdoing, and instead put everything in context, there's just nothing there
to get upset over; yet he comes out with, "Everyone must act with revulsion"?
Does not compute.
No report found wrongdoing. No reputable news organization found any hint of anything except things being taken out of context.
There's nothing distasteful here except the deniers' dishonesty, but even that is just... mundane. YEC's lie about evolution. 9/11 truthers ignore physics. ID in its entirety is a lie constructed in an attempt to strip enough religious language out of creationism to slip creationism into the public classroom. Holocaust deniers ignore... everything. Pro-lifers are using misleading statistics and playing on fears of racism to make blacks think that they're being exterminated through abortion. Fox News could take the fact that pi is an irrational number and somehow make it sound like the Democrats are to blame.
I'm just really tired of this. I have to deal with a sister who's a psychopath -- I really don't need to be surrounded by more con artists and the legions of fools who've fallen for them.
Really, just a 10th grade education and a little effort should be enough to pierce right through these. Well, except for Fox News -- their system is very good at directly triggering emotion, and I really wouldn't expect many to have the experience required to fight that mental rape.