07 Aug A reader thinks Bousquet has it exactly wrong

Retired CBC producer Peter Kavanagh calls out Halijourno Tim Bousquet’s response to my critique of Dal professor Tom Duck’s op ed piece in the Halifax Examiner [now liberated from behind a paywall], in which Duck defended disruptive behaviour at the Fracking Review Panel’s public meetings by young opponents of the controversial technology.

“People use the resources they have available to them,” [Bousquet wrote]. I think that is a cop out justification for the mental shades/blinders people can wear. If you want to stop a wrong, do so based on real science. You don’t get to adopt the same approach to science that your opponents do. So what if Exxon has billions and ‘warps science,’ and you have your voice and ‘warp science?’ Isn’t the end result the same: ‘warped science?’ As the saying goes, two wrongs don’t make a right.