John Houghton

Piers Akerman's response to being busted for fabricating a quote is simply dishonest. For instance: The little Crikey website had a defamatory reference to The Independent and me, clearly unsupported by any research. If you read the story in The Independent, you will see that The Independent verified that the bogus quote did not appear in Houghton's book as Akerman claimed. They also contacted Houghton who emphatically denied saying anything like it. They also searched for all mentions of the bogus quote on the Internet and found that the very first one was by Akerman. They also…

Andrew Bolt, Media Watch is overheating in its climate jihad: All sentences that contain the word "disaster" mean the same thing. 'Shorter' concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™ Acknowledgement copied from Sadly, No!. Update: The Australian runs with the Bolt line. Just how stupid does the Australian think its readers are?

The Independent tracks down the person who fabricated a fake quote used by folks like Christopher Monckton and Benny Peiser to attack John Houghton and scientists in general and it turns out to Piers Akerman in Sydney's Daily Telegraph. That's bad enough, but look at Akerman's response when contacted by Media Watch: there was an error in The Independent report. I have responded to The Independent. Now that has to be one of the most pathetic lies ever. If there really was an error, why not tell them what it was? And, sure enough, The Independent confirm that Akerman hasn't told them about…