#25 - Michelle Stirling on going viral pushing back against fake science and fake consensus

Oct 11, 2022

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Michelle Stirling is the Communications Manager for Friends of Science Society. She has worked in marketing communications, advertising and film/video production most of her career. In 2005, she worked for a time at Alberta Environment as an Information Coordinator, the year that the Sierra Club gave Alberta an "F"...and Ontario a "B+". That jump-started her interested in climate change policies. Michelle was an op-ed writer for the Red Deer Advocate for several years, and has contributed articles to the Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Troy Media and Medium. Several of her papers on 'consensus' thinking posted on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) are in the top 10% of downloads. She is a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists and AAAS.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/stirlingmg https://twitter.com/FriendsOScience

Friends of Science: https://friendsofscience.org/

30-second Friends of Science intro video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8kNBc14qXs

74-sec video: Climate Diversity is Our Strength - You have a right to dissent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e47dpiu2EVs

97% consensus study: https://friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/97_Consensus_Myth.pdf

Consensus Cake - Science is Not A Democracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOQ7_IH2438

Here's a short video on the Doran and Zimmerman study: https://youtu.be/zgXWN05P_Zo

Here's the "Infiltration" paper Michelle wrote, which includes the many comments of the Zimmerman Masters Thesis by those who emailed her: https://friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/Infiltration2015.pdf

Here's the Prof. Vahrenholt book Michelle mentioned: https://www.amazon.ca/Neglected-Sun-Precludes-Climate-Catastrophe/dp/1934791547

Climate Intelligence (CLINTEL): https://clintel.org/

No climate emergency: Michelle reads the CLINTEL declaration (over 700k views): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpVBH-HY5Ow

A letter to Greta Thunberg (600k views): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ZbSaL7JP0

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Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123

Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/

About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html

Notes for climate skeptics:

https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html

ClimateGate emails:

https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html