Comments on: Is Garth George capable of original thought?

By: For services to journalism « The Dim-Post

For services to journalism « The Dim-Post — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:03:02 +0000

[...] to be plagiarised from other sources without attribution. (One on climate change, pasted from crackpot energy industry sites, the other on the activities of the New Zealand military in Afghanistan, pasted from emails sent to [...]

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:04:54 +0000

Patronizing PHDs have earned this moniker because they have studied, and thus, presumably know what they are talking about but I love it when people call them out...because many of these "PPs" are riding on the coattails of their doctorate rather than their knowledge of the topic! My recent post How Do I Get YouTube Videos On My iPod

By: A visitor from La-la Land: Garth George gets it wrong (again) â€” Hot Topic

A visitor from La-la Land: Garth George gets it wrong (again) â€” Hot Topic — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:01:57 +0000

[...] to the hubbub. It’s not much different to his last few columns on the subject, though the borrowing of material is perhaps a little less obvious. He cites his source (a horrendously bad piece by Jonathan Leake [...]

By: ericd

ericd — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:01:14 +0000

Compare GG 4 Feb 2010 (in which he equates child abuse with cruelty to domestic animals) and GG 4 Oct 2006 where he advocates drowning kittens. The Fypocrite.

By: Reading the Herald « The Dim-Post

Reading the Herald « The Dim-Post — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:18:05 +0000

[...] That’s easy,’ I hear you say. ‘It’s Garth George, the guy who was caught plagiarizing content from a climate change denial site, and wrote that when New Zealand woman are [...]

By: These fragments I have shored against my ruin « The Dim-Post

These fragments I have shored against my ruin « The Dim-Post — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:59:18 +0000

[...] out but it merits repeating) that one of the Herald’s regular columnists, Garth George, was recently caught red-handed plagiarizing a climate change denial web site; 37.5% of the material in his column was written by [...]

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:38:30 +0000

I read Garth’s columns infrequently but I stopped after a particularly moronic screed. He strikes me a blinkered fundy bible-basher and I have no further interest in his senilistic wibble.

By: Mike C

Mike C — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:16:36 +0000

I was unfortunate enough to read Garthâ€™s Hearld piece when it came out and at the end was struggling to think of the last time I read so many errors and misrepresentations in so few words.

To my mind Garthâ€™s ranting seems pretty typical of a lot of deniers, who, despite having little or no knowledge of the science seem to think they know more than the expert scientists, characterising them as â€œpatronising PhDsâ€ for daring to publicly express scientific knowledge.

By: Doug Clover

Doug Clover — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:12:53 +0000

Cherry Picking is a favourite sport of deniers and if not followed up it can be deceiving to the lazy. Anyhow the abstract of this article provides some insight as to why the specific case (west coast of NZ) cannot always be extended to the general (pretty much everywhere else)
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118656034/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Not that this information will make a difference to tthe deniers as it was written by scientists who are of course part of the Conspiracy (TM).

By: Gareth

Gareth — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:09:27 +0000

Funnily enough, one of the few parts of Garth’s second screed that seems to be vaguely original is the following:

My scepticism grows when I note the fact that the Franz Josef and Fox glaciers are increasing in ice, that the ice melt across the Antarctic during the summer (October-January) of 2008-09 was the lowest ever recorded in satellite history, that western Antarctica has had a major increase in ice lately, and that there are 200-odd peaks in the Himalayas that are increasing drastically in ice and snow.

I think Garth should be required to name all 200. Meanwhile, Jim Salinger (who has been working on NZ’s ice for decades) will point out why he’s wrong about the rest…