Jul 24, 2017 · 1 min read
As one of the scientists who criticized David Wallace-Wells’ piece, I appreciate the points being made here. Yet, you seem to miss the point that it could have been written in a nearly identical way but still gotten the facts right. Clearly, the facts matter , or you wouldn’t have made of list of things that you say that scientists say he got right.
Towards the end of the article, you imply that scientists don’t want to “let the writers strike, pierce, and possess the sight of our souls with what may lie before us and our children if we do not rise up and fight.” This is wrong. We very much do think such writing is valuable. It simply drives us nuts when it’s done in a way that takes our decades of hard work and messes with it.