Thanks for the thoughtful post. Your conclusion is right, I’d say. Groups self-select, and I know a number of people who have given up or now refuse to even reply to comments on their blogs because they see no value in it (both ways). i’d also agree that my views are as rigid, in terms of ideology, as well as facts I accept, as any ‘denialist’. It’s a difficult one to deal with–each time I come across the viewpoint that climate change is a scam or hoax, I have to address.

Out of interest, your post was I believe the first referencing the paper I delivered to a journalism conference. Since then, the Herald Sun’s Andrew Bolt has picked up on it, and now a number of the bloggers who follow him have picked up on it, and a number that follow them… an example in practice of the social channeling you are describing, all starting from your blog picking up on mine. For example, some of the links:

Andrew Bolt led to this: Trampling the green weeds

which led to this Totalitarian Moron

Who knows where it could end!

Keep up the good blogging.

Thanks for the thoughtful post. Your conclusion is right, I’d say. Groups self-select, and I know a number of people who have given up or now refuse to even reply to comments on their blogs because they see no value in it (both ways). i’d also agree that my views are as rigid, in terms of ideology, as well as facts I accept, as any ‘denialist’. It’s a difficult one to deal with–each time I come across the viewpoint that climate change is a scam or hoax, I have to address.

Out of interest, your post was I believe the first referencing the paper I delivered to a journalism conference. Since then, , and now a number of the bloggers who follow him have picked up on it, and a number that follow them… an example in practice of the social channeling you are describing, all starting from your blog picking up on mine. For example, some of the links:

Andrew Bolt led to this:

which led to this