NPR: How Do We Talk To The Dangerous Idiots Who Disagree With Us?

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"My view is that we need to indict public leaders who are trafficking in science denial as a form of misconduct and a form of putting the American public into danger," she said. "However, I do think that we as scientists have engaged nonstop in trying to confront denialism and often that engagement is a very—it's coded male power brokering that is very problematic in the culture because it pits people against each other instead of focusing on shared values."

Seriously, this is worth reading. It's a good snapshot of what we might call intersectional lefty madness--the infection of quasi-scientific policy debates by the standard dreck from grievance studies...in this case, the smooshing together of climate-change hysteria with all the race and sex / evil menz / power crap from the weakest parts of the humanities.