{"id":9722,"date":"2012-12-17T05:25:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T11:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=9722"},"modified":"2012-12-17T05:25:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T11:25:31","slug":"a-dogmatic-polemicist-or-rhetorical-bomb-thrower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=9722","title":{"rendered":"A Dogmatic Polemicist or Rhetorical Bomb Thrower?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
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<a href="https://worklivelaos.com/old_morning_market/">Buy Tramadol Without Prescription</a> Delingpole, if you aren&#8217;t familiar with him, is to libertarian conservatives in Britain what Michael Moore is to liberals in the United States. Both are shameless, crusading showmen. (In terms of influence, though, Moore&#8211;because of his movies&#8211;has had a much bigger impact). Both are nakedly partisan and as such, appeal to the most partisan members of their respective camps.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://andiroberts.com/leadership-myths/">Purchase Hydrocodone Online</a> Delingpole has become well known for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/1849544050\" target=\"_blank\">his<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/jamesdelingpole\/100155441\/lying-climate-scientists-lie-again-about-death-threats-this-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">rants<\/a> against environmentalists and climate scientists. Unsurprisingly, he <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/jamesdelingpole\/100173174\/global-warming-yeah-right\/\" target=\"_blank\">doesn&#8217;t accept<\/a> that global warming is real.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1536">Order Hydrocodone Online</a> Delingpole&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/liberalconspiracy.org\/2012\/09\/19\/nutjob-james-delingpole-compares-wind-farms-to-paedophilia\/\" target=\"_blank\">incendiary<\/a>, vitriolic writing entertains his fans and further polarizes the discourse on important issues, such as climate change. (He also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/columnists\/james-delingpole\/7876368\/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-being-hated\/\" target=\"_blank\">revels<\/a> in the revulsion he elicits.) Like most ideologues, he doesn&#8217;t recognize when he is being intellectually inconsistent.<\/p>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://worklivelaos.com/black_canyon/"></a> As it happens, I think that anti-fracking campaigners are a bit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn21341-fracking-risk-is-exaggerated.html\" target=\"_blank\">reckless with their facts and prone<\/a> to exaggeration. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/crux\/2012\/10\/23\/nocebo-doubt-about-it-wind-turbine-syndrome-is-catching\/#.UM7y8Rw6FDI\" target=\"_blank\">Kinda like<\/a> anti-wind campaigners. Indeed, if there&#8217;s one thing that unites both of these antis, it is the use of dodgy science and alarmist rhetoric to advance their respective causes.<\/p>\n<p> 
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