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Obecalp's avatar

This is really outstanding. I only discovered about it because I subscribed to Jonathan Cook's Substack (I admire his work on Palestine). As soon as I read the opening paragraph of Cook's post, I clicked through to your rebuttal and was enormously pleased that I did. Your rebuttal is all-round excellent, convincing, rational, well-constructed, underpinned with solid, factual arguments. I guess I ought to thank Jonathan Cook for pointing the way to your excellent piece; I would almost certainly never have stumbled upon it otherwise.

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Tippity-top spot on from start to finish!

“When I challenged Cook on this very point in the comments section of his ode to climate alarmism, he simply repeated the assertion that “the scientific consensus has existed for 70 years or more”.” — Talking points on demand, from a human pullstring voice-box doll. Here's a simple équation-a-trois: “The scientific consensus has existed for 70 years or more” = “the science is settled” = “I'm an ignoramus!”

“Most of them are probably just following the money.” — “The problem with 'following the science' is that the $cience follows the money." (Russell Brand)

“As for the childish put-down, I found that both surprising and satisfying.” — Au contraire, knowing what I know of mountebanks, I would have thought it predictable … when you got nothin', you got nothin', and Cookie got nothin', except for a laughable ad hominem, which of course, is a symptom and admission of intellectual bankruptcy.

“If everything Reuters prints is the unassailable truth, why is Cook bothering to ply his trade as an independent journalist?” — Just what I was thinking … he'd fit in well at his old home, The Guardian (of Lies), were he given the climate beat.

“Frightening people out of their wits and then imposing greater control in the guise of protection from the overhyped dangers is precisely what the political class does for a living.” — You might appreciate this one … https://redpillpoems.substack.com/p/inventing-the-enemy

“There’s a very strange cognitive dissonance at play here that permits him to acknowledge widespread institutional corruption…except in climate science.” — An exception which, of course, is required as an article of faith … faith in the eschatological religion that IS climate alarmism; a religion whose adherents are (unbeknownst to them), members of death cult that has the demonization of the gas of life (CO2) as its supreme tenet.

“It’s positively sick, and it’s fully supported by the mainstream Left.” — The mainstream Left = the shock troops of useful idiocy.

And the Understatement of the Year Award goes to … “They know exactly what they are doing and their heads are far clearer than Cook’s.”

“They would be less inclined to spend their days ruining other people's lives if they themselves had meaningful work to do.” — Parallels here between Wokeism and Climate Alarmism as religious substitutes, as explored herein … https://redpillpoems.substack.com/p/wokeworld-take-4

It's been said, and bears repeating, that what you get when you mix politics and science, is politics.

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