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Washington Post Hires Author of “Republican War on Science” its Own Book Reviewer Called a Conspiracy Theorist

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On October 4, 2014 @ 12:58 pm In The Point | 7 Comments

He also took 4th place in the most punchable face in America contest

Yes Chris Mooney is being slotted into Wonkblog, but it’s one thing to have partisan voices and another thing to have a guy covering a supposedly apolitical topic whose big selling point is blaming everything in that topic on Republicans.

It’s like bringing in Michael Moore to cover the automobile industry.

Chris Mooney is a Mother Jones hack who wrote “The Republican War on Science”. And yes it is exactly what it sounds like. His whole career thesis is that conservatives are anti-Science and liberals are pro-Science.

So the Washington Post decided to give him a forum for his conspiracy theories.

Chris is one of the most distinctive, provocative voices writing about environmental issues today, arguing that people’s preconceptions — political, religious, cultural — color the way they view science.

That’s just a whole roster of empty noise.

Mooney’s writing is summed up by “Republicans bad”. So hiring him means a lot of clickbait involving Republicans and Global Warming and Imminent Destruction of the Planet.

That’s what the new Bezos Washington Post seems to want. Now it’s what it has.

You can see the contrast from a decade ago in the Washington Post’s own review of Mooney’s hackery. (This will be going down the rabbit hole, I’m sure)

The resulting book is ill-formulated, overwrought and surprisingly unconvincing. (Trust me: As a resident of tree-hugging, gay-marrying, marijuana-scented, Bush-bashing San Francisco, I was prepared to be convinced.)…

I know that publishers must “move” books, but The Republican War on Science — really, now! Could Ann Coulter be any more glib? …

Judging by the book, Mooney isn’t interested in scientific research per se. He says almost nothing about the technical details of debates over computer models, observational anomalies, instrumental glitches, data-collection methodologies and the like…

By ignoring such philosophical complexities, Mooney has produced a book without much intellectual gravity. Instead, he offers a kind of conspiracy theory, which might be summarized thus: “If Republicans support a certain science policy, it’s bad. If they oppose it, it’s good.”…

But now the hack is in at The Bezos Post.

 


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