This article was written in "The Conversation", which prides itself on 'Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair'.
The author: Michael J.I. Brown, ARC Future Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Monash University.
O.K. Michael - let's test the rigour and the flair...
(i) First paragraph, linking a "deluge of pseudoscience" to anti-vaccination clubs and aliens, just doesn't work. It might get some embarrassed laughs suited to a stand-up comedian whose stage act is dying, but not from an audience intending to take you seriously.
So: JOURNALISTIC FLAIR....that's a FAIL.
(ii) Next, we read about Bob Carter, and of the NIPCC as being "a group of climate change 'sceptics' bankrolled by the libertarian Heartland Institute to promote doubt about climate change".
That's strange. Everyone who has read or heard Bob Carter would know he's passionate about the fact the climate is changing, has always changed and will always change. What's this "doubt" about climate change?
Perhaps Mr.Brown should know that Bob Carter has very grave doubts about the hypothesis of catastrophic, anthropological global warming.
They are quite separate things.
For ACADEMIC RIGOUR....that's another FAIL.
We might as well stop right there. Thanks for the link, redux.
