Barbara O’Brien reports on a spoof global warming denial site which many people – including ‘comedian’ Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and possibly Senator Jim Inhofe’s staff – took for the real thing.
Russell’s Law states that it’s impossible to distinguish a creationist from a parody of a creationist. This incident makes me wonder if it’s possible to generalise Russell’s Law to all forms of denialism.
Filed under: Climate change, Denialism, Russell's Law
I certainly have seen the reality and parody converge more than once!
http://exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com/2007/10/when-reality-mirrors-parody.html