The Humanist - a magazine of critical inquiry and social concern

The Humanist - a magazine of critical inquiry and social concern: "What bothered him the most, perhaps, was what he perceived as a growing intolerance among his scientific colleagues for unorthodox opinions. Some scientists who should have maintained a rigorous standard of proof when it came to interpreting data were being led astray by charismatic figures, and then blamed others who refused to join them. Dyson asserted that Al Gore—whose movie An Inconvenient Truth was a cause celebre—wasn’t just being alarmist but had become the chief propagandist for, or the high priest of, the secular religion of climate change, a belief system in which scientific facts are trumped by politics."