The proselytisers for man-made global warming have long exercised a tight stranglehold over the contents of Wikipedia. The editors of that online source of all knowledge are ready with lightning speed to ensure that its entries related to climate change are purged of any hint of dissent from the party line – and that entries for “climate sceptics” are given a viciously dismissive twist,asserts that
Now it seems a similar coup has taken place on Amazon, the online outlet which is Britain’s largest bookseller.How silly.
Over the past year, Amazon’s list of global-warming bestsellers has been wholly dominated by sceptics, with my own book The Real Global Warming Disaster standing for months at number one. At the end of last month, however, all the more recent sceptical books were suddenly removed from the list.
It's the beginning of a school year. People, rather than buying books recommended by self-aggrandizing paranoid columnists and superstitious, confrontational clergy, are buying books recommended by professors who know what they are talking about. I feel confident in reassuring Mr. Booker that the unfortunate normal, democratic, anti-elitist order of things he recollects with such poignant nostalgia will restore itself shortly.
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Somewhat topically, the current "Geocentric" link on the right is amazing. After reading the first bit, I scrolled down expecting to see Inferno's name or some such, but no such luck. Wow.
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It's not much of a scoop. It's on Slashdot right now where I found out about it. There's an amusing link about their design skills in the comments.
What's objectionable about Mr Booker is that he is trying to control the context of his work. As a Telegraph columnist he enjoys privileged access to the fourth estate, he uses that to attack the scientific method , and then demands the world look upon that as science. Well done Amazon, I suggest they start a category just for Mr Booker and call it Hubris.
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