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“Balance was interpreted, it seems, as giving equal weight to both sides, rather than giving accurate weight to both sides.”
― Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

“Obviously, thinking about anger, being angry, or writing about anger will not eliminate pain, illness, discrimination, or death. Neither will hostile lashing out, behavior that often alienates others. However, expressing anger in specific ways measurably reduces the pain that chronic sufferers experience and improves mortality rates.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“While the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in a two-party political system, it does not work for science, because science is not about opinion. It is about evidence.”
― Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

“The “real” agenda of environmentalists—and the scientists who provided the data on which they relied—was to destroy capitalism and replace it with some sort of worldwide utopian Socialism—or perhaps Communism. That echoed a common right-wing refrain in the early 1990s: that environmental regulation was the slippery slope to Socialism. In 1992, columnist George Will encapsulated this view, saying that environmentalism was a “green tree with red roots.”99”
― Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming