Manne uses Holocaust to smear sceptical scientists

Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun
Wednesday, Oct 21st, 2009

Robert Manne, a Jewish academic, wants to use the Holocaust dead to smear sceptics who dare see evidence that man may not be heating the world disastrously:

Scepticism is in general, as it should be, a positive word, denoting scientific or humanistic curiosity and in particular the presence of an open mind… Denialism, a concept that was first widely used, as far as I know, for those who claimed that the Holocaust was a fraud, is the concept I believe we should use.

Manne’s deliberate use of the smear over reasoned argument – and of such a smear! – shows not just a despicable lack of the respect for the victims of the Holocaust, but a contempt for the facts and for the very many prominent scientists who sincerely advance them, and understand the issue rather better than does this political scientist.

Not surprisingly, given Manne’s record as a propagandist of the “stolen generations”, his account of the history of scepticism on man-made apocalyptic warming is also historically inaccurate.

UPDATE

On the same video, Gaian preacher Clive Hamilton (another non-scientist of the far Left) not only endorses Manne’s use of the term “denialism”, but urges believers to attack sceptics as the kind of people who’d deny smoking causes cancer, too.

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