I don't expect these dyed-in-the-wool cranks to change their minds, but it is appropriate that those of us who do have bits and pieces of the internet in our charge keep the dialog honest and progressive. The denialists are putting up offensive, inaccurate, one-liner billboards. We are burning the billboards down with science. It is worthwhile work, important work, and it can even be fun on occasion.
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The Journal's Cynthia Crossen gives an overview of political battles surrounding billboard advertising today.
This is not too surprising: Cincinnati fanatics and kooks were so threatened by a billboard that said, "Don't believe in god?
Thank you to all the bloggers and others who jumped immediately on the Heartland Institute for putting up horribly offensive billboards equating scientists with the scientist/mathematician killing terrorist Unibomber.
There's another billboard in Minnesota, asking if we're missing a recent American president.