Comments on: Plimer debunked!

By: David

David — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:33:51 +0000

To reiterate, I was not addressing the “main thrust”, I was focusing on expressed opinions of Plimer’s book, Heaven and Earth. I understand that this was not the main thrust of either post.

Now, since you are saying that you were offering no opinion on Plimer’s book (despite the pejorative “denialist” adjective), and that your link was intended to highlight only Professor Clark’s comments on the Australian and not his comments on “Heaven and Earth” in the same post, then I take you at your word.

By: Tim Lambert

Tim Lambert — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:55:06 +0000

“this rubbish” refers to the articles in the Australian. I did not say or imply that he had debunked Plimer’s book. You misrepresented me.

Despite your denial, Professor Clarke did debunk the articles.

By: David

David — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:49:07 +0000

Tim, I’m aware that the focus was the anti-climate-science bias at the Australian, but you explicitly included discussion of Plimer’s book as part of “this rubbish”, as did the linked article.

I wasn’t in the mood for analysing the entirety of someone else’s rather long post word by word, but since you seem to be implying that I’m distorting through selective use of paragraphs, I’ll make the following points.

1) The implication was that Plimer’s book was debunked. It wasn’t.

2) Clark’s response was to dismiss it out of hand (as quoted), based on reviews by non-scientist thid parties. Your response was to defer to Clark.

3) while some of the other Australian articles are criticised with a more solid basis, the overall approach is one of a mixture of factual discussion and bald assertion. That’s not “debunking.”

I hope that clarifies things.

By: Tim Lambert

Tim Lambert — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:22:46 +0000

I’m sorry, was my post too long for you?

Try reading it again and see if you can tell us what “this rubbish” refers to.

By: Retardo

Retardo — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:08:33 +0000

My favorite word in the “debunking” is “apparently”.

As in, “I didn’t read the book, and it’s wrong”.

Clown.

By: David

David — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:07:56 +0000

Fair enough. Thanks for the clarification.