{"id":370812,"date":"2010-02-27T14:51:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/?p=7096"},"modified":"2010-02-27T14:51:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:51:57","slug":"mike-mann-on-how-to-fight-the-deniers-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/370812","title":{"rendered":"Mike Mann on How to Fight the Deniers | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were many quotable moments in my <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.pointofinquiry.org\/michael_mann_unprecedented_attacks_on_climate_research\/\">Point of Inquiry interview with Michael Mann<\/a>. I&#8217;ll be posting those, and further reflections on the interview, throughout the coming week. But I&#8217;ll start with a particularly memorable exchange that occurs around minute 34:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><strong>Mooney: <\/strong>Can the scientific community fight harder, or must it draw the line somewhere? You&#8217;ve got someone out there like Marc Morano, who is incredibly effective at doing what he does, his website is ClimateDepot, it is very high traffic&#8230;.the scientific community does not have its equivalent. And the question is, should it, or is that crossing some sort of line?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><strong>Mann:<\/strong> Well, it&#8217;s the old line about getting into a fight with a pig: &#8220;you&#8217;ll get dirty, and the pig enjoys it.&#8221; There&#8217;s some truth to that.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to more of the interview&#8211;and subscribe&#8211;<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.pointofinquiry.org\/michael_mann_unprecedented_attacks_on_climate_research\/\">here<\/a>&#8230;.also, the <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforinquiry.net\/forums\/viewthread\/7175\/\">CFI forums<\/a> are getting pretty active now in discussing the interview.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/j14PBhpE9kqOf4nXE-iInl8gEXI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/j14PBhpE9kqOf4nXE-iInl8gEXI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/j14PBhpE9kqOf4nXE-iInl8gEXI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/j14PBhpE9kqOf4nXE-iInl8gEXI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/MBArrvTh_cw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were many quotable moments in my Point of Inquiry interview with Michael Mann. I&#8217;ll be posting those, and further reflections on the interview, throughout the coming week. But I&#8217;ll start with a particularly memorable exchange that occurs around minute 34: Mooney: Can the scientific community fight harder, or must it draw the line somewhere? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}