SuperFreak Dubner: Our Critics Have Issued A 'Fatwa'

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/11/18/superfreak-fatwa/ 11/17/09: In the latest of many fawning interviews promoting SuperFreakonomics, author Stephen J. Dubner claimed the critics of his "global cooling" chapter have issued a "fatwah for entertaining alternate theories." On Public Radio International's morning program, "The Takeaway," Dubner told hosts John Hockenberry and Celeste Headlee that he was right to call global warming a "religion." In fact, he considers the criticism the book has received from economists, climate scientists, and energy experts to be "essentially a fatwa."

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DUBNER: In terms of the biggest result, I'd say is: We argued that the movement to stop global warming has the feel of a religion. I think if anything we should strengthen that sentence, because what's been issued here is essentially a fatwa for entertaining alternate theories.

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