{"id":3863,"date":"2010-11-15T12:50:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T17:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=3863"},"modified":"2010-11-15T12:50:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T17:50:51","slug":"monbiot-the-gentleman-thug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=3863","title":{"rendered":"Monbiot: The Gentleman Thug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://theroyalstagproperties.com/our-team/">https://theroyalstagproperties.com/our-team/</a> Have you ever known someone too proud or pigheaded to admit he was wrong? Let&#8217;s say it was a particular claim this person made, that turned out to be false, but which the person couldn&#8217;t admit to getting wrong.\u00a0 Would this then lead you to think that the person&#8217;s stubbornness in this one instance masks a nefarious, hidden agenda?<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://www.andrewplimmer.com/how-to-start-an-online-business/">Buy Soma Online</a> George Monbiot thinks this is the case with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stewart_Brand\" target=\"_blank\">Stewart Brand<\/a>, the legendary (and, in recent years, controversial) techno-environmentalist. Last week, Monbiot wrote the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/georgemonbiot\/2010\/nov\/10\/ddt-monbiot-stewart-brand\" target=\"_blank\">second<\/a> of two back-to-back columns on Brand, of which this was the subtitle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://forgive123.com/travel/"></a> The environmentalist is refusing to retract false claims that there  was a   worldwide ban on pesticide DDT. Does his obstinacy mask a  hidden,   pro-corporate agenda elsewhere?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://www.randwickpsychologycentre.com/therapists/"></a> I&#8217;ve already <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/2010\/11\/12\/monbiot-vs-brand-contd\/\" target=\"_blank\">explained<\/a> why I think this is a ridiculous leap of logic for Monbiot to make. Now let&#8217;s look at the headline of that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/georgemonbiot\/2010\/nov\/10\/ddt-monbiot-stewart-brand\" target=\"_blank\">same column<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/salesfacilitation/">Buy Online Soma</a> Dear Stuart Brand: If we can&#8217;t trust your claims on DDT, why should we trust you on anything else?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/about-us/">Order Hydrocodone Online</a> Let&#8217;s go back to some recent history concerning Monbiot and &#8220;climategate,&#8221; of which a good number of people <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/stoat\/2010\/04\/monbiot_is_still_rubbish.php\" target=\"_blank\">feel pretty strongly<\/a> about. Funny thing, I wasn&#8217;t seeing any posts from <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/deltoid\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Lambert<\/a> with headlines like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://raceflowdevelopment.com/gallery/"></a> Dear George Monbiot: If we can&#8217;t trust your claims on &#8220;Climategate,&#8221; why should we trust you on anything else.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://rgprincipal.com/peru/">Purchase Xanax Online</a> Nor has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cif-green\/2010\/jul\/07\/russell-inquiry-i-was-wrong\" target=\"_blank\">partial walk-back<\/a> in July from Monbiot seem to have appeased his critics, judging by this <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/deltoid\/2010\/11\/stewart_brand_disappoints.php#comment-2926988\" target=\"_blank\">recent comment<\/a> at Deltoid:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
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<a href="https://blackhillsballoons.com/bookyourflight/">Tramadol For Sale Online</a> I&#8217;m going to leave it up to Tim Lambert to tell me if this is true or not, since I didn&#8217;t see any response by him to that reader. (Come to think of it, were there any posts by Tim on Monbiot in the aftermath of &#8220;climategate&#8221; assessing Monbiot&#8217;s role?)<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://disneycruisinggroup.com/admins/">https://disneycruisinggroup.com/admins/</a> Let&#8217;s say, for the sake of argument, that it&#8217;s true (and anyone should feel free to weigh in on this)&#8211;that Monbiot has yet to admit or acknowledge &#8220;his part in the witch hunt that was called climategate.&#8221; Might the subtitle of that hypothetical Lambert post, taking Monbiot to task, read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://worklivelaos.com/mahosot/">https://worklivelaos.com/mahosot/</a> The environmentalist is refusing to retract false claims that were made about about the behavior of CRU scientists. Does his obstinacy mask a  hidden, anti-scientist agenda elsewhere?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
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