An illustrated taxonomy

Via Crooked Timber, a short academic paper on standard denier tactics for fighting regulations of all sorts: "The Denialists' Deck of Cards: An Illustrated Taxonomy of Rhetoric Used to Frustrate Consumer Protection Efforts" (PDF).

While it concentrates mostly on consumer protections, it does include some global warming examples, and most of it applicable to the global weirding fight.

Via Crooked Timber, a short academic paper on standard denier tactics for fighting regulations of all sorts: “The Denialists’ Deck of Cards: An Illustrated Taxonomy of Rhetoric Used to Frustrate Consumer Protection Efforts” (PDF).

While it concentrates mostly on consumer protections, it does include some global warming examples, and most of it applicable to the global weirding fight.

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