[MD] Global Warming: Science or Politics?

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Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Arlo]
> I consider Fox News, like CNN or MSNBC or any media agency, "credible" for
> reporting most events. When they reported Anna Nicole was dead, for example, I
> didn't doubt this story.

Can't argue with that. 

> 
> But the question for you remains, Platt. Is "credible" simply another word for
> "party allegiance"?

No. 

> [Case]
> I would not use Fox as a source for much of anything because they actually revel
> in their bias. Owned by a foreign media conglomerate I think they represent the
> worst in American journalism but they continue to pay lip service to
> journalistic ethics.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Case, you and Platta are arguing past each other. You (so it seems to me) appear
> to be arguing for a "body" that is above political slant. Platt is pulling the
> argument into everything being political slant. While you hoist "credible" onto
> the backs of peer-review, and I'd imagine, consensus, validity, replication,
> citation and the host of other latches The Academy demands to constrain
> movement towards finer and finer understandings of "the world", Platt drops the
> whole game and says, in effect, "truth" is a function of political allegiance. 

Platt says bias is not unknown among those who claim objectivity. including the
Academy. 

> This "Brave New World" where information is selected and accepted based on
> agreement with Party Orthodoxy, where information dissemination is only seen as
> "credible" when filtered by Party Loyalists, where the test of "right or wrong"
> is another way of saying "my party or not", is where we are now living. The
> lunatics have taken over the proverbial asylum.

A reasonable accurate description of the "Academy" as represented in the liberal
arts segment of today's universities. One need only recall the uproar at Harvard
at the former president's remarks about women to understand that P.C. rules the
day among the self-proclaimed body of intellectual elites.



  

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