It seems to have gone unreported that Nassim Nicholas Taleb has written a scathing letter to Alan Rusbridger about the Guardian’s reporting of his public conversation with David Cameron accusing them of a lack of ethics.
He rejects the charge of being a “climate-change denier” made by Lucy Mangan, and the suggestion that he thinks “climate change is not man-made” as alleged by Nicholas (20) Watts.
Taleb points out that “A minimum of homework on the part of your staff would have revealed that I am one of the authors of the recent King of Sweden’s Bonham Declaration on attitude to climate change.”
Nicholas (20) Watts is the senior political correspondent, he hasn’t had a very good silly season. Made a monkey of over the Baltimore Mayor Hoax and accused again of not doing his homework. Hencke might have been slower, but he wouldn’t have screwed up twice like this…