Denailists have a repertoire of gambits they use to spread their denialism and make their points. They need these gambits because they otherwise lack facts, cred, usable theory, or any of the other good stuff that makes science, history, etc. work.
James Hrynyshyn has written a post about a publisher trying to pretend to be the victim of kool-aid drinking scientists, which is a ploy to increase sales of a dumb-ass AGW denialiist book. It is a very interesting development: The climate change boycott gambit
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Apparently the guys over at Denialism.com have irritated Bill Dembski and his band of merry sycophants over at Uncommon Descent.
It's a common tactic of suuporters of alternative medicine or other pseudoscience related to medicine to try to smear defenders of medical science as being hopelessly in the thrall of pharmaceutical companies, or, as they like to call it, "big pharma." For example, the anti-vaccine movement in ge
I wrote about this classic crank gambit a bit about a week and a half ago, emphasizing that no amount of studies will convince a crank.
The The funniest response to today's McCain gambit