In the continuing saga of the most recent conservative "epistemic closure" spat, he describes Jim Manzi as a "global warming zealot." This is a little like describing Christopher Hitchens as an apologist for the Catholic Church.
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Megan McArdle is a columnist at Bloomberg View and a former senior editor at The Atlantic. Her new book is The Up Side of Down.