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One statement employing two resistance tactics to fend off the data

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EXCERPT: I want to parse this statement by new EPA Chief Scott Pruitt, as quoted in this New York Times article: "I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see."

I'm not going to talk about the politics of climate change in this post but rather to point out that Pruitt used two popular resistance tactics adopted by people who don't like what the data are suggesting to them. I have been party to countless such dialogue in business meetings.

Tactic #1: Claiming that data should be ignored until it is made "precise".... MORE
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