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Mooney now agrees with us - Denialists deserve ridicule, not debate [denialism blog] (scienceblogs)

He had to realize Nisbett's framing was worthless and write a whole book on
defective Republican reasoning to realize it but it sounds like Chris Mooney
has come around to the right way to confront denialism:

> **The only solution, then, is to make organized climate denial simply beyond
the pale**. It has to be the case that taking such a stand is tantamount to
asserting that smoking is completely safe, no big deal, go ahead and have two
packs a day.

Sounds a little bit like what I wrote in 2007 when I pointed out denialists
should not even be debated:

> The goal instead must be to enforce standards of scientific debate, to
delimit sharply what kind of evidence and argument is worthy of being listened
to, to educate people about the form of pseudoscientific arguments, and when
these arguments are proffered, **to refuse to engage on the grounds they
aren't even worthy of consideration**.

>

> Don't mistake denialism for debate...

The whole goal of denialists is to create the appearance of a legitimate
debate when there is in fact no legitimate scientific debate to be had. What
is the point of arguing with someone ...

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