Posts Tagged ‘attacks on Science’
Morano Analysis #2: Hedging
I closed the first post by noting that Maslin seems to feel that Morano is attacking him–specifically, that Morano has accused scientists (including, presumably, him) of lying. There are a variety of other linguistic markers in this brief exchange that reinforce this picture of Maslin as the weak victim responding to another’s aggression: the hedges with which Maslin prefaces many of his remarks.