Silence the ‘Deniers’
Climate change debate.
BBC News is being reprimanded for the egregious sin of allowing climate skeptics equal airtime. The network’s governing body explained in a report: “The [BBC] Trust wishes to emphasize the importance of attempting to establish where the weight of scientific agreement may be found and make that clear to audiences. Science coverage does not simply lie in reflecting a wide range of views but depends on the varying degree of prominence such views should be given.” Actually, education comes precisely from hearing opposing views; forcing a faux scientistic “consensus” on the vulnerable is called indoctrination. Salon’s Lindsay Abrams praised the report, opining, “Were every network to start doing what the BBC is, their [skeptics] unfounded opinions would cease to be heard, Bill Nye wouldn’t have to keep debating them, and maybe, just maybe, they’d all just go away.” What the Left truly wants is not the facts – they just want us truth seekers to “go away.” More…