{"id":12265,"date":"2012-02-12T14:57:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T19:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=12265"},"modified":"2012-02-12T14:57:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T19:57:37","slug":"realpsychopathy-from-realclimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2012\/02\/realpsychopathy-from-realclimate\/","title":{"rendered":"RealPsychopathy from RealClimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a ride to the center of the alarmist mind.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2012\/02\/free-speech-and-academic-freedom\/\">Free speech and academic freedom<\/a>&#8221; Rasmus Benestad writes at RealClimate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; If the people who threat and harass climate scientists were to have their way, I fear we would be heading for a world resembling the other side of the iron curtain of 1989&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is very rich coming from a RealClimate colleague of Michael Mann, who as we learned from Climategate 1.0, tried silencing anyone whose views he disapproved. <\/p>\n<p>As <a href='https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20100111_pb2202climategate.pdf'>reported<\/a> by the Commonwealth Foundation in the wake of Climategate 1.0:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Mann&#8217;s] retaliation takes several forms: personal degradation of his challengers to colleagues and the media, impugning their motives, and attempting to close off the avenues of peer-review publication (i.e., association with efforts to overturn the journal editor or editors involved in overseeing certain publications critical of Dr. Mann\u2019s work).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The climate alarmist movement is apparently as personality-disordered as its members, trying every psychopathic trick in the book to prevail over the skeptics.<\/p>\n<p>Having failed to intimidate, shout down, and malign skeptics into silence and oblivion, the alarmist are now trying to play the pity card \u2014 i.e., &#8220;the big bad skeptics are intimidating, shouting down and maligning us&#8230; boo-hoo.&#8221; Their first tactics backfired; now they think projection of them will work.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too bad the National Science Foundation can&#8217;t grant them all consciences instead of taxpayer money.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UN2VNFpiGWo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a ride to the center of the alarmist mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-3bP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}