It's strange how easily a thoughtless epigram can become a political movement's epitaph. Last year, Daily Telegraph climate punditoid and wannabe United Kingdom Independent Party candidate James ' I'm always right ' Dellingpole sent groans through denierdom by telling Royal Society president Sir Paul Nurse on BBC prime -time:
‘It’s not my job to sit down and read peer reviewed papers.
I'm an interpreter of interpretations.'
'WE ARE SKEPTICS, NOT SCIENTIFIC THEORISTS.
WE DON’T HAVE ANY SCIENTIFIC THEORIES.
THAT IS NOT OUR JOB.
IT’S YOURS. '