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  • Wednesday, January 14, 2009 06:44 PM

    Iconoclast NOT

    1) What started this was your despicable behavior toward someone who simply disagrees and who presents facts and logic to substantiate his positions. That the Nature and Science and other articles which document my position were posted on websites which, on no basis I can see other than that you disagree with them, you choose to disregard, tends to make discussing science with you impossible.

    2) Your exhibited impulse to call people who disagree with you liars without any evidence that it is so is a problem, too.

    3) A liar is someone who deliberately issues falsehoods knowing them to be false at the time. That I disagree with you and that I chip your favorite icon does not make me a liar, nor does it make the people at CO2 or Heartland liars either. I know I believe what I say and I suspect they do too. It is a vile tendency of the left to call those who disagree with them liars. I resent it. It is a serious charge. I take my credibility and reputation quite seriously.

    4) What is evident is that you choose to cling to your beliefs with a religious fervor and get hostile when challenged, which sounds more like a fervent accolyte than an iconoclast.

    We report, the reader can decide.

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