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Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by scythe on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @06:47PM (#22050433)
Key quotes:

>The @NASorg [National Association of Scholars] sounds like the National Academy of Science, but it's not.

>The conference they are organizing has 21 speakers. Of them, 7 are hard core climate change deniers and 0 are climate experts.

Sounds like a pretty shady group to me.

Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by rhino369 on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:32PM (#22050700)
What does a "hard core climate change denier" look like according him though?

I took an environmental law seminar at Northwestern, and one of the invited guests was read the riot act by faculty who accused him for being a climate change denier. But he didn't actually deny climate change, he just had a model that predicted 50% as much increase in temperate at IPCC average models. And, for that, many called him a denier.

So just because Teytelman makes this claim, doesn't mean its true. Teytelman might also be 100% correct.