If At First You Don't Succeed. . .

[peristaltor]

. . . Lie through your teeth.

Or, more specifically, commit perjury before congress.

From beachofdreams, a bit of a tale from a scientist regarding what happened to him during a debate:

In late 1998, I was asked to debate the well-known greenhouse skeptic Dr. Patrick Michaels of the University of Virginia

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[peristaltor]

I've been trying. Note I qualified the last paragraph with "Many of these skeptics," rather than make a blanket condemnation.

As to the claim that my claims are dubious, I can back that up with citations, people funded by the cited "special interests" who use their scientific credentials to obfuscate the "debate" and thus mislead the public.

Sadly, the incident mentioned in the article is far from isolated.

Oh, and I can only dream of sounding Gomezticational!

[beachofdreams]

To be fair to "the Testator", the ad hominem argument came only after the evidence was presented for why Micheals is wrong on at least this point; and it was at the very leasy very careless of Micheals to present a straw man of Hansen's arguments; dishonest and insidious at most.