Not exact matches
I'm just trying to make sure that there's at least one
contrarian and maybe one
voice of realism among this season's many purveyors
of touching truisms, pious platitudes, and bumper sticker BS — all
of which feels like it was written by either Hallmark or hacks whose prior Republican clients and «candidates» are now sitting on the sidelines sucking their thumbs and watching The Donald drive the bus off the bridge.
* Chazz definition: A backlash article is an article written to assure the reader that the writer is the sane
voice of wisdom when in fact they're really just knee - jerk
contrarians railing against all evidence.
By using the platform for shit - talking, antagonizing other art world figures, and generally embodying the character William Powhida, any critical distance between life and work slowly eroded into a kind
of generic oppositional and
contrarian voice.
The authors highlight an important problem: how climate scientists have been influenced in their work by the public debate, to the extent
of even inadvertently adopting a rhetorical framing created by
contrarian voices from outside science.
(Beder, 1998) • Amplify the
voices of contrarian scientists, (Cooler Heads Coalition, created by conservative think tanks) Dunlap and McCright, 2011: 151) • Convince people that «using fossil fuels to enable our economic activity is as natural as breathing.»
«The notion
of a «pause» or «hiatus» demonstrably originated outside the scientific community, and it likely found entry into the scientific discourse because
of the constant challenge by
contrarian voices that are known to affect scientific communication and conduct.»
«I am aware,» he began somewhat cautiously, «that CEI is regarded as a
contrarian voice on the science
of climate change.»