Peter Sinclair Smacks Down the Anti-Scientists

—By Julia Whitty

| Thu Mar. 18, 2010 3:14 PM PDT

"Are we a people estranged from critical thinking, divorced from logic, alienated from objective truth?" Peter Sinclair quotes Leonard Pitts Junior with that line, as he takes on the deniers with calm, reasoned forbearance and a few forlorn questions.

The video's one in Sinclair's growing arsenal at Climate Denial Crock of the Week.

 

 

 

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