> Hi Platt, (Arlo quoted)
>> [Platt] >> Looks like straw man set up to me. >> Steve: James Hansen says he has been censored. You say "To state or imply that advocates of global warming have been censored is absurd." Okay, I will write him a letter and tell him that though he thinks he was censored, he actually wasn't because that would be absurd. I'm sure he'll be relieved. I now know that this didn't actually happen since you say it would be absurd, but I hope we can agree hypothetically that if a scientist had been asked by Congress to write a report for Congress on global warming, and the message of the report he wrote was changed by non- scientist White House officials, it would be immoral. Thank goodness that could never happen in our country. >> [Arlo] >> This was not what Steve suggested. What Steve pointed to was a very >> specific incident where the administration censored the work of >> scientists in order to change the outcome of the report. It did this >> not out "fairness in presenting both sides of an issue", but because >> it wanted the report to conform to its ideological stance, which >> it did not. >> >> That is quite immoral, according to the MOQ. > Platt: > Have you heard the administration's side of the story? I haven't. > But intellectual > morality calls for all sides to be heard. Steve: 60 minutes interviewed Hansen and sought a response from the administration but 60 minutes was told that they would never get an interview with them. Does that mean that we can never draw any conclusions on the matter? (I found the interview on youtube with a google search.) Regards, Steve Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
