Sentences with phrase «rhetorical tactics»

Maybe a useful rhetorical tactic, but hardly useful for thinking about how to build a better future.
A well known set of rhetorical tactics used by fake AGW skeptics to paralyze sensible discussions, mischaracterize scientists, and generally poison the political atmosphere.
Mark Lynas, a former anti-GMO activist who now considers GMO fears a «conspiracy theory,» notes that GMO opponents use the same rhetorical tactics beloved of climate deniers: cherry - picking evidence, emphasizing a few dissenting «experts» over the scientific consensus, and attempting to «capture and control the public - policy agenda to enforce its long - held prejudices.»
Portraying religious dissenters as favoring separation was an effective, if disingenuous, rhetorical tactic because it was so widely accepted by Americans that church and state occupied cooperative relationships.
This quote from Michael Mann is a great example of two common rhetorical tactics of climate alarmists:
Do you really not see that you are deploying the same crude rhetorical tactics Stephens does?
Denialism is the employment of rhetorical tactics to give the appearance of argument or legitimate debate, when in actuality there is none.
Interestingly, this same rhetorical tactic has been used on every prior paper showing a consensus in support of AGW.
One of the rhetorical tactics is now familiar from debates about Islam and terrorism: Industry advocates accused doctors reluctant to prescribe addictive medicines of suffering from «opiophobia.»
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My language is not limited by your determination to use the taking of offense as a rhetorical tactic.
In climate science, those who employ this rhetorical tactic attack individuals who ask probing scientific questions.
That is the profusion of the kinds of arguments, rationalizations, justifications, and rhetorical tactics that are characteristic of both some lawyering and much forensic debate.
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