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| Subject: Yet another rent-seeking climate scientist says fake news must be fought Tue Feb 07, 2017 7:50 pm | |
| Climate change has long been the target of so-called fake news and its researchers can offer lessons for the wider society in how to handle deliberate misinformation, a leading US scientist said.
Michael Mann, a professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University who has been attacked by climate change deniers for developing in 1998 the so-called hockey stick graph revealing sharply higher global temperatures after 1900, said the spread of social media made it harder to tackle falsehoods before they gained traction.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/michael-mann-climate-scientist-in-the-crosshairs-says-fake-news-must-be-fought-20170206-gu688g.html |
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