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Unafraid, questioning minds are central to the pursuit of truth and democracy
AT Easter, the official Greenpeace website carried a blog written by Gene Hashmi, communications director of its affiliate in India. Hashmi pointed his finger at sceptics who fuelled “spurious debates around false solutions” and concluded with the not too subtle threat: “We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work. And we be many but you be few.”
Welcome to a world where the term sceptic has acquired the meaning usually associated with a Dark Age heresy.
Fearing a backlash to a statement that most normal readers would interpret as an incitement to violence, Greenpeace pulled the blog from its site.
It defensively justified its act of self-censorship on the ground that it was very “easy to misconstrue” the statement.
Source: theaustralian.com.au