While reading through this little wheel of inanity, it occurred to me that I'd seen this sort of rhetoric before. The complaints about the mainstream ignoring them, anger that ideas had been hijacked. It was all so familiar. And then it hit me: I've seen the same words coming out of the mouths of the global warming deniers and the evolution deniers!
I don't know what it is about denialists that leads them down the same path, but boy, they sure seem to find it:
| Domestic Violence Deniers Say... | Global Warming Deniers Say... | Evolution Deniers Say... |
"SUPPRESSION OF RESEARCH: No NIJ Funding of gender-inclusive research. Data ignored (e.g. by NVAWS). Reluctance by journals to publish data contrary to the prevailing paradigm." | "In fact, it's precisely the opposite. It's the leftists and liberals, the global warming geeks, who are trying to suppress legitimate points of view on this topic." | "Anti-ID bigots amongst Baylor’s faculty and staff moved quickly and decisively to stifle any such research on their campus, claiming that they were concerned that 'people will make us guilty by association and assume that we are associated with or linked to this organization that is very well established as a pseudo-science.' It was clear then that intelligent design was not a subject that could be freely researched, studied, or discussed at Baylor University. Academic freedom be damned." |
"ECONOMIC ABUSE: No VAWA funds to male victims before 2007. State DV funds controlled by ideological groups, reserved for female victims only." | "'It seems if scientists don't express the views of the political establishment, they will be threatened and that is a discomforting thought,' said Alabama state climatologist John Christie, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville." | "'Darwin-only activists are dumbing down the teaching of evolution and stopping science learning,' said Casey Luskin, program officer for public policy and legal affairs at Discovery Institute. 'This is nothing more than a gag order on science, a dogmatic approach to education that restricts students from learning about evolution.'" |
"DEMONIZATION & INTOLERANCE: Advocates for gender inclusive [sic] policies and interventions demonized as sympathetic to perpetrators, heckled at conferences; research dismissed as 'backlash' against women's rights." | "In fact, in the matter of global warming, muzzling and ridiculing are generally reserved I to the skeptical analysts who won't fall into lockstep." | "While the effort of Darwinists to demonize their scientific critics may continue to be an effective public relations strategy for a few more years, this line of attack is going to become increasingly implausible as a new generation of biologists, biochemists, mathematicians, and physicists continue to develop the theory of intelligent design." |
"EXCLUSION: DV organizers and local councils exclude and marginalize advocates for abused men, ignore interventions not based on patriarchal theory. Gender-inclusive hotlines, shelters not supported." | "Environmental groups have argued that global warming skeptics should be ignored or marginalized, but the American Association of State Climatologists urges policymakers to move cautiously when addressing the matter." | "The well-organized movement to promote Darwinism and exclude alternatives is part of a larger educational project in today’s public schools." |
"HIJACKING OF FEMINISM: Sexist, divisive, cynical and ineffective 'feminist' policies infantilize women, endanger female, male, and child victims." | "...[C]hanging the weather isn't what the global-warming push is about. Their goal is to use the global-warming issue to impose their utopian vision | "The Darwinist modus operandi for a century and a half has been to slip a philosophical agenda — scientific materialism — in with the science. They hijack other fields of biology — microbiology, population biology, epidemiology, genetics, etc — then they assert that Darwinism is |
"LIES, DISTORTION, & MISINFORMATION: Powerful DV organizations (e.g., NCADV) cherry-pick statistics, distort research evidence to advance ideological agenda in policy, public education, and DV prevention efforts." | "Hegerl's study and the revelation of the flaw in the BBC's climate model demonstrate that the jury is still out on the cause and future impact of climate change," said [Sterling] Burnett. "Alarmists cherry pick the data that they highlight to promote their agenda." | "The Darwinist s distort truth and promote lies. The Darwinists want to keep their elitist, monopolistic grip on evolution theory." |
Amazing, ain't it? And of course, apart from their rhetoric, these three breeds of denialists all share another thing in common: they're all absolutely, 100% wrong.
