{"id":1474,"date":"2012-03-22T14:08:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T18:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2012-03-22T14:08:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T18:08:29","slug":"this-american-lie-is-it-o-k-for-climate-science-deniers-to-lie-and-for-journalists-to-quote-those-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/03\/this-american-lie-is-it-o-k-for-climate-science-deniers-to-lie-and-for-journalists-to-quote-those-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"This American Lie: Is It O.K. For Climate Science Deniers To Lie And For Journalists To Quote Those Lies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Revkin\u2019s headline was \u201cWhen Narrative Comes Before Truth.\u201d Obviously that isn\u2019t Gleick. It is, however, the Heartland Institute. As\u00a0several leading climate scientists have explained, it is Heartland who spends their time\u00a0\u201cspreading misinformation\u201d and \u201cpersonally attacking climate scientists to further its goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who is guilty of wanting their narrative to trump scientific truth? That would be the professional climate science deniers. They are the Mike Daisey\u2019s of climate discourse.<\/p>\n<p>The shocking thing is that while I\u2019m sure This American Life won\u2019t be quoting Mike Daisey as a source again, leading journalists, including some at the New York Times, keep citing the disinformers no matter how many times they have been caught spreading outright lies see \u201cFalse Balance Lives At The New York Times\u201d and \u201cAtlantic Editor Megan McArdle Admits She\u2019s Outsourced Her Thinking to Cato\u2019s Pat Michaels\u201c.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2012\/03\/21\/448661\/this-american-lie-climate-science-deniers\/\">This American Lie: Is It O.K. For Climate Science Deniers To Lie And For Journalists To Quote Those Lies? | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revkin\u2019s headline was \u201cWhen Narrative Comes Before Truth.\u201d Obviously that isn\u2019t Gleick. It is, however, the Heartland Institute. As\u00a0several leading climate scientists have explained, it is Heartland who spends their time\u00a0\u201cspreading misinformation\u201d and \u201cpersonally attacking climate scientists to further its goals.\u201d Who is guilty of wanting their narrative to trump scientific truth? That would be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,22],"tags":[258,967,832,966,968],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}