[MD] S/O and Morality

[Arlo Bensinger]

[DMB]
I'm going to resist the urge to say nasty things about Platt, but 
Jeez. You can imagine what I think and probably goes without saying, 
anyway. At this point, I just feel sorry for the guy.

[Arlo]
What's funny is he chastised you for seemingly implying that the 
number of results on a google search meant anything, and yet to 
support his position he links a string of names, as if that means 
anything... add to that his blindness to even look a little bit 
further to see the bogus nature of this list.

"Even if half the names are legit....", please, you may as well say, 
"even if half the google hits are legit..."

But there are always different standards for judging the worth of 
that which conforms to the noble, righteous, honest, decent 
neoconservative ideology and the vile, immoral, deceitful, corrupt 
liberal agenda.  Indeed, its simply pre-defined into his rationale. 
You see, those scientists who deny global warming simply MUST be 
telling the truth, since it conforms to the neoconservative platform, 
which we know is righteous and beyond reproach. While those 
scientists who advance global warming simply MUST be lying, advancing 
deceitful propaganda or engaging in "dubious science", since they 
conform to the "liberal agenda", which we know is deceitful and 
immoral and dishonest.

You can, of course, pick your topic and apply this criteria. Those 
scientists who advance an idea tauted by neoconservative ideology are 
seen as noble knights of truth fighting a sea of corrupt, 
black-toothed libs, while those who advance something supportive of 
"the liberal agenda" are at once and always engaged in "dubious 
science". Its this "logic" that makes him blind to the hypocracy of 
condemning you for "a list", then turning around and supplying "a 
list" as a legitimate counter. YOUR list was "liberal", and so it can 
be dismissed and ridiculed as preposterous, dubious logic. HIS list 
was "neoconservative" so it must be fair and honest and legitimate.

And you will never, ever make any more headway than that.