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Merry Christmas
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Posted on: December 24, 2009 1:48 PM, by William M. Connolley
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You really dont get it do you?
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/12/30/wikipedia-meets-its-own-climat
Posted by: Stephan | December 30, 2009 10:39 AM
Wow -- trolls _and_ grinches _and_ Malkin, oh my.
You are exceptionally favored by the dork side, William.
Posted by: Hank Roberts | December 30, 2009 10:55 AM
And wow again. If you gag your way through that article Stephan linked, about WC and Wikipedia, you'll get to where it says:
"... the skeptics needed time to recover their more detached sense of what is really going on with the weather. So the warmists enjoyed a head start thanks to their political zeal and their lack of scrupulosity."
Wossat? Huh? He thinks "warmists" lack whaaaat?
Let's lookitup:
Definitions of scrupulosity on the Web:
Wikipedia:
Scrupulosity is pathological concern with one's personal sins, including "sinful" acts or thoughts usually considered minor or trivial within their religious tradition. The term is derived from the Latin scrupulum, a sharp stone, implying a stabbing pain on the conscience.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrupulosity
Oh, that can't possibly be what he meant, can it? He thinks this is lacking in "warmists" so presumably is amply supplied in the people he agrees with? Weeelllll....
* Anxious over-attentiveness to the details of moral or religious requirements (Wulff).
www.jesuits.ca/orientations/glossary3.html
Well, I guess that's what he meant.
Ah, what a pleasure it is to see the rhetoricist hoist on his own petulance.
Posted by: Hank Roberts | December 30, 2009 11:25 AM