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Heartland Institute Document Leaker Comes Forward, Maintains Documents Are Real
The Bad Astronomer writes "Last week, an anonymous source leaked several internal documents from the Heartland Institute, a non-profit think tank known for anti-global-warming rhetoric. The leaker has come forward: Peter Gleick, scientist and journalist. In his admission, he cites his own breach of ethics, but also maintains that all the documents are real. This includes the potentially embarrassing '2012 Climate Strategy' document stating that Heartland wants to 'dissuade teachers from teaching science.' Heartland still claims this document is a forgery, but there is no solid evidence either way."
Who has MORE reason to lie about this?
People lie about shit all the time for no reason. You don't need a reason or incentive to lie about something.
The government has MORE reason to lie about the moon landings than the people claiming they're fake.
Same goes for "9-11 was an inside job", chem trails, alien bases in the Mariana Trench, etc.
You can't make a decision based on intent or benefit, you have to make a decision based on evidence.
Of course, we all know the documents are real. Just like the big email scandal in 2010 (was it 2010? I'm too old to remember when shit happened.).
There will be some huff and puff and then Wolf Blitzer will get bored talking about it and it will just disappear.
that enjoys shitting in the face of science and progress under the pretext of that etherial "hand of the market." other notable endeavors theyre renound for include:
creating controversy and doubt over the fact that smoking causes health problems
drafting policies targeted at reducing the services provided by the federal government to nothing more than a "competitive marketplace"
instituting "market reform" into the education system and championing charter schools (here in los angeles, charter schools show up in the news once a week for some major breech of trust, child abuse or embezzlement scandal)
the same reaganite health care privatization and deinstitutionalization mentality that landed an entire generation of schitzophrenics and invalids on the streets of skid row.
check em out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heartland_Institute
Good people go to bed earlier.
Harvard turns out a lot of kooks too. Besides, being a hotshot law lecturer is completely orthogonal to being a good leader and manager.
I find his talking to be neither eloquent nor moving, but vapid and monotonous, with a predilection for the first person singular that would make any communist or fascist dictator feel right at home. And it's indeed hypocritical if not of him, than of his supporters, or should I say idolators, when we heard trumpeted from every mountaintop how this man was supposedly unprecedented in modern times in his intelligence and wisdom when in fact every possible objective artifact that could demonstrate this so-called perspicacity had been locked away behind a million dollars worth of lawyers, with the occasional and certainly unintended exception of a few clumsy, grammar-challenged articles, a couple of pieces of puerile and/or deeply disturbing poetry and two autobiographies at least one of which has been demonstrated forensically to be almost certainly written by someone else.
If his records and past writings were anything but a complete embarrassment, we would have had them rubbed in our faces for the last 5 years as still more evidence of unearthly wisdom of this Second Coming of Lincoln, FDR and Mr. Spock all rolled in up one package almost too awestruck by his own awesomeness to acknowledge the rest of the world, but who in fact makes more verbal, intellectual and philosophical gaffes than President "Dubya", Dan Quayle and the Reverend Spooner put together. As it is every hollow promise, every tired platitude, every banal regurgitation from the fever swamps of early 20th century utopian collectivism somehow elicits a response more worthy of a new Word of God come tumbling from the heavens to alight ever so tenderly upon the poor benighted souls of those who actually created the world he would destroy like some kind of blind, groping leviathan that crushes what it cannot understand or even perceive.
So, yeah, I reiterate the GP: "So what?"
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.