ON ISSUES "like global warming ..., scientists need to speak up." So writes an illiterate "science journalist."

The central lesson of Climategate is ... that in a world of blogs, cable news and talk radio, scientists are poorly equipped to communicate their knowledge and, especially, to respond when science comes under attack.

I can't help but wonder which side Chris Mooney would have taken when Galelio Galilei was forced by the establishment to recant his support of the heliocentric view of the universe.