Wingnut lies about climate cover-up debunked

In middle school, you may have learned about the scientific method. It's the technique by which researchers gather data to form a conclusion.

In a vain effort to "prove" that the scientific method has a left-wing bias, the wingnutosphere has hyped what it calls "Climategate." This is their name for the nonstory about the apparently leaked e-mails by climate change scientists.

The right-wing intelligentsia expects every news organization to drop everything they're doing just to cover this. And when not every news outlet complies, the wingnuts do strange things.

Like make up shit.

They claim Google has been covering up the "story" by omitting "Climategate" from the drop-down menu that appears when you type in a search term.

I knew the wingnuts were full of it, but I just had to test their claim.

Guess what? Their claim is a Big Lie. Just like the rest of their victim fantasies.

I bipped on over to Google. All I needed to type in to the search field was "clim", and the very first item that appears in the drop-down menu is "climategate." Here's proof:

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I just used the scientific method!

The wingnutosphere flat-out lied about Google trying to cover up this "scandal." They lied, and they know they lied.

It's obvious what happened here. "Climategate" simply didn't rank very high at first, because normal people don't care about it. But it went to the top of the list when wingnuts kept searching for it - and because their lies encouraged folks like me to test them.

In other words, right-wingers actually tried rigging it so "Climategate" would appear at the top of the drop-down box.

Once again, a right-wing meme has been proven to be the exact polar opposite of what really happened: They claim Google suppressed "Climategate", but actually the wingnuts artificially promoted it.