Just to be sure to add a tangential point, before I try to veer onto topic, I think I read someting about Sarkozy today about him like appointing a vocal global warming skeptic to some position or another.
And now, to be on topic:
Group think does seem to sum a lot of it up, as the article said...
Regarding the outing, well, that is sort of quite fascinating... and the comparison of this who wiki anon thing to Usenet back in the day. History is repeating itself?! Please, tell me about that more...
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