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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 11:56 AM
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John Tomlinson beats his own record for climate denial nonsense - falsehood every 21 words
Geroge Monbioy destroys an article by a Michigan writer.

I'm really annoyed with Michigan columnist John Tomlinson. First, the Michigan Mauler has walked all over the competition for the prestigious Christopher Booker Prize, just a couple of months into the contest to find the world's most misguided comments on climate change. He set a high bar with his first article about global warming, which contained 18 magnificent errors. I feared that this would be impossible to beat.

How wrong I was! He has now seen off all possible contenders (except perhaps a repeat performance by his good self), with a cracking 38 howlers in one short column for the Flint Journal. Ironically he made these errors in response to my exposure of his previous claims.

Amazingly, this even beats his own provisional world record for density: the ratio of falsehoods to words. His first column averaged one misleading statement for every 26 words. This one delivers one per 21 words. I intend to submit his second column to the Guinness Book of Records as the most inaccurate article ever published in a newspaper.

Secondly, this astonishing wealth of disinformation means it has probably taken me 100 times longer to respond to his article than he took to write it. This is why there's been such a long delay in my response, and a general hold-up in all further entries for the Christopher Booker Prize. The amount of time I've wasted on his nonsense means I'm beginning to regret launching this prize. And beginning to lose the will to live. I warn you now: this is a very long blog post.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/apr/30/climate-change-scepticism-climate-change


It turns out Tomlinson is a hypnotist. :evilgrin:
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kristopher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 02:54 PM
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1. Outstanding example of the time-cost of information
and how it works against valid discussion and in favor of anti-reality charlatans of all stripes.

Great read.
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