Countering Data with Scare Quotes
Nicolas Loris /
The Natural Resources Defense Council recently went after The Heritage Foundation after hosting an event with Dr. Gabriel Calzada, author of a study that concluded for every green job created in Spain, 2.2 were lost. Let’s run through the NRDC’s points:
1.) “If you scour the Web this week, you find Kreutzer and only a tiny handful of others touting the now totally discredited “findings” of a Spanish “study” that purports to expose the pernicious nature of green jobs.” And, “[I]t is worth bearing in mind that ExxonMobil and the flacks they fund have been part of the dirty energy cheerleading team that has been busy trying to keep us stuck with dirty 19th century technologies.”
Great use of scare quotes. NRDC links to the Dakota Voice as if it were the only source that picked up the study. We encourage you to do just what NRDC said. Scour the web. Google Gabriel Calzada’s name. Also try it in Google News. We’ll let the results speak for themselves.