--- "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
I'm getting awfully tired of watching environmentalists inject their junk science POV into articles. They palm off their own prejudices as scientific fact far too glibly for me to remain patient any longer.
We need to start cracking down on contributors who do this.
I'm talking about the dozens of places in which environmentalist contributors keep inserting their unattributed claim that there is a CONSENSUS that supports their POV. I'm talking about PhD scientists like William Connolley who insert statemnts like "Singer is wrong" into articles instead of NAMING the scientists who disagree with Singer and saying WHY they disagree.
I've tried being cordial affable. I've tried patiently explaining NPOV. Nothing works. These advocates keep injecting their POV back into the articles, even using smear tactics against scientists who report findings which disagree with environmentalist POV.
I can't stop three dozen other contributors from injecting bias into the scientific articles relating to the environment. Not by myself -- not by slowly and patiently undoing each mistake and explaining it. I'm outnumbered and outgunned.
I'm going to start issuing official warnings to NPOV violators. If that doesn't slow them down, I'm going to suspend them -- give them a temporary ban.
Jimbo keeps saying he's sorry to see me go and happy to see me back. Well, I call on him to back me up -- or fire me.
Document their activities, and take'em down. If they want to argue their case, they can go the the arbitration committee.
===== Christopher Mahan chris_mahan@yahoo.com 818.943.1850 cell http://www.christophermahan.com/
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