{"id":531965,"date":"2010-04-17T04:41:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T08:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5554"},"modified":"2010-04-17T04:41:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T08:41:41","slug":"the-true-nature-of-sceptics-by-frank-furedi-the-australian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/531965","title":{"rendered":"The true nature of sceptics by Frank Furedi, The Australian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=30\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Newspaper Article&quot;\">Newspaper Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Unafraid, questioning minds are central to the pursuit of truth and democracy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;spurious debates around false solutions&#8221; and concluded with the not too subtle threat: &#8220;We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work. And we be many but you be few.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to a world where the term sceptic has acquired the meaning usually associated with a Dark Age heresy.<\/p>\n<p>Fearing a backlash to a statement that most normal readers would interpret as an incitement to violence, Greenpeace pulled the blog from its site.<\/p>\n<p>It defensively justified its act of self-censorship on the ground that it was very &#8220;easy to misconstrue&#8221; the statement.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: theaustralian.com.au<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5554\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oyY6mqUFdr9kSVZOwd4nvcrSq_g\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oyY6mqUFdr9kSVZOwd4nvcrSq_g\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oyY6mqUFdr9kSVZOwd4nvcrSq_g\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oyY6mqUFdr9kSVZOwd4nvcrSq_g\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/_sE1xUopN74\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: Newspaper Article 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 &#8220;spurious debates around false solutions&#8221; and concluded with the not too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531965","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}