Yet Another Example of 21st Century McCarthyism



Hatred. Black lists. Conspiring to make innocent people lose their jobs and make them unemployable in their chosen field. Putting a target on someone and vowing to bring them down. Is this a description of the campaign against communists in the 1950s? No, it's how honest scientists who question the climate emergency orthodoxy are treated. Read more.

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