--- Sheldon Rampton sheldon.rampton@verizon.net
I agree completely. I would not have bothered criticizing Ed as strongly as I have if Ed had not announced his intention to ban people unilaterally.
OK --I took that comment by Ed as a tongue in cheek remark-- a joke. That nobody else took it that way, except maybe Ray -- was no doubt a surprise. I think maybe Ed meant it as a self-effacing joke. Thats enough on that. Ed can answer this or not.
Actually, Ponte is not and never was an
environmentalist >or a scientist. To the contrary, he's a former Reader's >Digest editor and Hollywood publicist
No kiddin. So thats kinda like 'Leeza Gibbons leaving the infotainment biz to do nanotech research and investment. Or maybe like Gary Coleman putting away his acting carrer to....
writes nowadays for conservative websites such as GOPUSA.com and the David Horowitz website FrontPageMagazine.com.
This guy is a jerk-- I used to read his crap on H-Diplo. And why Camille Paglia likes his nonsense I dunno.
As Connolley demonstrates, Ponte misrepresented the conclusions of the 1975 report published by the
National >Academy of Sciences (NAS),
Thats too much reading for me-- can you point to something that's only a sentence long, yet will get the point across just as well?
If you want to know what someone ACTUALLY said, you should go back and read > the original rather
than >play Chinese Whispers.
This should be policy-- "no trusting web sources."
I assume that Ed had me in mind with his reference to a "biased, axe-grinding environmentalist." This
is a
fairly typical example of what he calls his
"cordial" and
"affable" approach to discussing this topic.
I wouldnt call his approach "cordial" or "affable" either-- maybe "condecending," and "imposing" --but he tries really hard, and gets it right usually. With this issue... well, Sheldon's right-- everybody has *some* kind of bee up their butt.
~S~
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