{"id":32586,"date":"2017-04-14T13:55:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T17:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=32586"},"modified":"2017-04-14T13:55:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T17:55:50","slug":"the-facts-of-life-v-fake-news-climate-denier-hired-by-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=32586","title":{"rendered":"The Facts of Life v Fake News: climate denier hired by the New York Times?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source, ThinkProgress: After hyping itself as antidote to fake news, New York Times hires extreme climate denier<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Uh, where have I been? Thinking about power-hungry, obscenely wealthy people buying political and court seats, sure, but several of those men are co-conspirators in the Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy.<\/a> That is, fossil fuel magnates who have $reasons$ to promote the false notion that climate change ain’t anything.<\/p>\n

Anyway, had it not been for ThinkProgress, I would not have picked up this news from Joe Romm:<\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times\u200a\u2014\u200awhich advertises itself as a defender of truth in the Trump era\u200a\u2014\u200ajust hired<\/a> an extreme denier of climate science as a columnist.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bret Stephens was most recently deputy editorial page editor for Rupert Murdoch\u2019s deeply conservative and climate-denying<\/a> Wall Street Journal, where, in 2015, he wrote that climate change\u200a\u2014\u200aalong with hunger in America, campus rape statistics, and institutionalized racism\u2014 are \u201cimaginary enemies.\u201d He will now take those views to the New York Times.<\/em><\/p>\n

Stephens is unusually extreme and divisive even for a climate science denier, also comparing scientists and those who accept their findings to Stalinists, anti-semites, and communists.<\/em><\/p>\n

The scientific findings that Stephens has repeatedly dismissed as \u201cimaginary\u201d are routinely published in the New York Times itself. And in an August job description<\/a>, the New York Times called climate change \u201cthe most important story in the world.\u201d Stephens calls it \u201chysteria.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Hmm. What is the New York Times thinking? Are they going to put this guy on the opinion page and let a real scientist take him down in the opposite column?<\/p>\n

We will see.<\/p>\n

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Source, ThinkProgress: After hyping itself as antidote to fake news, New York Times hires extreme climate denier Uh, where have I been? Thinking about power-hungry, obscenely wealthy people buying political and court seats, sure, but several of those men are … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[636,1095,1175],"tags":[1364,1365,1192,1182],"class_list":["post-32586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-koch-bros-final-solution-to-democracy","category-politics","category-the-facts-of-life","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-change-denial","tag-facts-of-life","tag-fake-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t