http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/creationist-science/ Tue, 13 May 2008 19:55:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/creationist-science/#comment-36083 A. Nony Mouse Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:35:58 +0000 http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/creationist-science/#comment-36083 It would be great if you could back up allegations of the improprieties of anthropogenic climate change "deniers" (this has a delicious "malleus maleficarum" ring to it, don't you think?) with some solid documentation and a demonstration of a "causal link" to how funds from an organization led them to endanger their own careers by espousing that oh-so-dangerous skepticism that leftist ecologists seem unable to deal with rationally. But I know causal links are not the left's forte nowadays. In any event, concocting corporate conspiracy theories to deal with those pesky gadflies out there is simply a dodge to keep people from getting the bigger picture: Environmentalism is simply the nouveau Marxism. As a scholar of Soviet politics, this move seems to me like an intellectual "weekend at Bernie's" - you dress up the skeleton of Marx in environmentally-friendly rags and trot him out to "Staying Alive" by the Bee-Gees. This is just another way of saying Marx is deader than disco. If you want to be at the top of the intellectual food chain, start thinking for yourself and stop contriving flimsy ad hominem attacks. It would be great if you could back up allegations of the improprieties of anthropogenic climate change “deniers” (this has a delicious “malleus maleficarum” ring to it, don’t you think?) with some solid documentation and a demonstration of a “causal link” to how funds from an organization led them to endanger their own careers by espousing that oh-so-dangerous skepticism that leftist ecologists seem unable to deal with rationally. But I know causal links are not the left’s forte nowadays. In any event, concocting corporate conspiracy theories to deal with those pesky gadflies out there is simply a dodge to keep people from getting the bigger picture: Environmentalism is simply the nouveau Marxism. As a scholar of Soviet politics, this move seems to me like an intellectual “weekend at Bernie’s” - you dress up the skeleton of Marx in environmentally-friendly rags and trot him out to “Staying Alive” by the Bee-Gees. This is just another way of saying Marx is deader than disco. If you want to be at the top of the intellectual food chain, start thinking for yourself and stop contriving flimsy ad hominem attacks.

]]> http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/creationist-science/#comment-13141 Michael Hureaux Perez Sat, 19 May 2007 01:43:07 +0000 http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/creationist-science/#comment-13141 on point. Good news about Mike Friedman, too. I knew him ten years ago when we were both working for an alternative school program in central Harlem. Solid cat. on point. Good news about Mike Friedman, too. I knew him ten years ago when we were both working for an alternative school program in central Harlem. Solid cat.

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