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March 11th, 2007 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, climate change | 152 Comments »

On Thursday night, Channel 4 broadcast what it described as a “controversial documentary”. It was essentially the same rather elderly climate denialist arguments that have been seen many times before – and assessed, and refuted – but packaged up with a bit of drama, as if they were new and unheard of.

That wasn’t the only problem with it.

Climate scientist ‘duped to deny global warming’
Ben Goldacre and David Adam
Sunday March 11, 2007
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Against Nature – Channel 4 tonight

March 8th, 2007 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, climate change | 130 Comments »

So as I’m sure most of you know, tonight there is a documentary about how we don’t need to worry about global warming.

www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/index.html

Whatever your feelings about climate change, there are good reasons to to have serious concerns about the film:
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