November 21, 2006

Judd Legum/Think Progress: propaganda is OK if for a good cause

Judd Legum of Think Progress (run by the Clinton-linked joke known as the Center for American Progress) discusses a recent segment of the Neil Cavuto show here. Cavuto claims that the movie "Happy Feet" is "far-left" propaganda:

Cavuto saw the movie with his sons and found it "offensive." Cavuto objected to the fact that penguins in the movie have trouble finding food because of overfishing and oil drilling. Cavuto called the film "an animated 'Inconvenient Truth.' I half expected to see an animated version of Al Gore pop-up."

The only response Legum provides is to support their propaganda:

Cavuto is objecting to introducing children to a real problem. A recent study in Science found "There will be virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the middle of the century if current trends continue."

Needless to say, the study in Science is not a fact, it's a theory. No doubt the study had caveats and has detractors, yet, oddly enough, those didn't make the cut.

Posted to Bloggage at November 21, 2006 11:02 AM

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Needless to say, the study in Science is not a fact, it's a theory.

Haven't read or studied it, so I have no comment. But some theories actually turn out to be accurate and/or accurate predictors.

But the collapse of the North Atlantic cod fishery is reality, and it is impossible to know, in the end, what the full consequences will be:

The fishery has yet to recover, and may not recover at all because of a possibly stable change in the food chain.

It's better to err on the side of caution in these things, isn't it?

Posted by: eh at November 21, 2006 12:01 PM