Ethics

Mooney Shreds Will on Global Warming

By Ed Brayton

There has been much controversy over the last few weeks over a column that George Will wrote in the Washington Post about global warming. Now the Post has published a column by fellow SciBling Chris Mooney that really shreds the factual claims Will made in that article. But his column also points to a larger issue that I think is important. He addresses that larger issue right in the first paragraph:

A recent controversy over claims about climate science by Post op-ed columnist George F. Will raises a critical question: Can we ever know, on any contentious or politicized topic, how to recognize the real conclusions of science and how to distinguish them from scientific-sounding spin or misinformation?

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).