whether we are to win against climate change,greens need to replace spin with sober analysisDo many environmentalists hold anti-scientific positions? This plan, assign forward by environmental journalist Fred Pearce and others, or may have received some pushback (eg Anne Chapman earlier in this series) but for me,it is merely a statement of the obvious.
Consider that great scientific battleground of the early 21st century: embryonic stem cell research. Here is an issue where too many greens hold views indistinguishable from those of the Vatican. Greenpeace brought and won a lawsuit against the German scientist Oliver Brüstle who wanted to patent a method of turning human embryonic stem cells into neurons. In a debate with writer and neuroscientist Kenan Malik Greenpeace claimed they were not opposed to embryonic stem cell research. Yet their own press release at the time made it clear that they were opposed to it. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com