More Dittohead Climate Change Delusions
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
A headline on the political gossip site Drudge Report reads, “Psychiatrists identify ‘climate change delusion’ phenomenon…” Sounds like a consensus of psychiatrists have identified an epidemic of people suffering an abnormal, unhealthy form of psychosis as a result of all the global warming science in the news, right?
Upon reading the actual article we find the “Psychiatrists” are two in number: Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of the Royal Children’s Hospital. The “phenomenon” won’t be making it into the DSM anytime soon, because it’s a case study of one 17 year old experiencing a great deal of anxiety about apocalyptic events, not an unusual disorder. What makes his slightly interesting is that it deals specifically with environmental concerns:
The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies
This opinion column masquerading as a legitimate news article then goes on to claim anyone who accepts the scientific consensus on global warming is suffering the same delusion.
The real “Climate Change Delusion” is the mass psychosis of dittoheads, which prompts them to distort the truth, ignore scientific evidence, and work against their own health and well-being.
A headline on the political gossip site Drudge Report reads, “Psychiatrists identify ‘climate change delusion’ phenomenon…” Sounds like a consensus of psychiatrists have identified an epidemic of people suffering an abnormal, unhealthy form of psychosis as a result of all the global warming science in the news, right?
Upon reading the actual article we find the “Psychiatrists” are two in number: Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of the Royal Children’s Hospital. The “phenomenon” won’t be making it into the DSM anytime soon, because it’s a case study of one 17 year old experiencing a great deal of anxiety about apocalyptic events, not an unusual disorder. What makes his slightly interesting is that it deals specifically with environmental concerns:
The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies
This opinion column masquerading as a legitimate news article then goes on to claim anyone who accepts the scientific consensus on global warming is suffering the same delusion.
The real “Climate Change Delusion” is the mass psychosis of dittoheads, which prompts them to distort the truth, ignore scientific evidence, and work against their own health and well-being.
