I came in here, not having read the article, to mock the 'both sides' argument before it even began.
Sad state of affairs when it is the third post in the thread.
Having read the article, it's even more depressing.
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“It’s that false balance thing,” Mann says. “You’re a reporter and you understand there’s an overwhelming consensus that evidence supports a particular hypothesis—let’s say, the Earth is an oblate spheroid. But you’ve got to get a comment from a holdout at the Flat Earth Society. People see the story and think there’s a serious scientific debate about the shape of the Earth.”
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