AP Bolsheviks

AP: Authoritarian Propaganda The wire service "reports" that skepticism is the bane of science.

See if you can guess the source of this quote: “ Once, not so long ago, the planet's prevailing voices were those of the experts--the people who, right or wrong, had years of training to back up what they said. Then came the Internet, and everything changed. ” Wrong.  It was the same guy who just wrote this ... “ Consider the global warming debate: The skeptics shout. The skeptics' opponents shout back. The scientists insist they have research in their corner. And public debate shifts from the provable and the empirical toward the spectacle of argument. Democracy in action? That's one way of seeing it. But is something deeper afoot? As the amplification of human opinion becomes more democratic, is the suspicion of the expert and the intellectual--a long-held trope in American society--going globally viral? [Cont] ”