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| Global warming propagandist slapped down |
| 2010-10-17 |
| William Connolley, arguably the world's most influential global warming advocate after Al Gore, has lost his bully pulpit. Connolley did not wield his influence by the quality of his research or the force of his argument but through his administrative position at Wikipedia, the most popular reference source on the planet. Through his position, Connolley for years kept dissenting views on global warming out of Wikipedia, allowing only those that promoted the view that global warming represented a threat to mankind. As a result, Wikipedia became a leading source of global warming propaganda, with Connolley its chief propagandist. His career as a global warming propagandist has now been stopped, following a unanimous verdict that came down today through an arbitration proceeding conducted by Wikipedia. In the decision, a slap-down for the once-powerful Connolley by his peers, he has been barred from participating in any article, discussion or forum dealing with global warming. In addition, because he rewrote biographies of scientists and others he disagreed with, to either belittle their accomplishments or make them appear to be frauds, Wikipedia barred him -- again unanimously -- from editing biographies of those in the climate change field. I have written several columns for the National Post on Connolley's role as a propagandist. Two of them appear here and here. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 Trouble is they have blocked just about everyone from editing climate articles so Connolley's edits stand. They weren't reversed. So on one hand they have "banned him" but they haven't banned the edits that led to his being banned. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2010-10-17 23:33 |
| #4 The old Soviet photo retouching protocol. The watermelons may be green on the outside, but they're still red on the inside. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-10-17 22:18 |
| #3 Connelley is a jackal not an editor. Giving editors a bad name. |
| Posted by: Faeries8121 2010-10-17 21:36 |
| #2 Wikipedia didn't do anything about it until AFTER it was brought to their attention that he had deleted the reference of Dr. Hal Lewis' resignation from the American Physical Society. Reference: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/13/wikipedia-turbo-revisionism-by-william-connolley-continues/ Also, a SECOND alarmist has been banned: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/15/another-wikipedia-editor-has-been-climate-topic-banned/ Lewis' resignation: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/16/hal-lewis-my-resignation-from-the-american-physical-society/ |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2010-10-17 20:56 |
| #1 Three cheers to Wikipedia for caring enough about their credibility to at least discourage one of their worst offenders. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-10-17 12:25 |