<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Real Science]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[stevengoddard]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/author/stevengoddard/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The Purpose of&nbsp;Censorship]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>When people have a stake in an unsupportable belief system, the only way to keep it going is to silence dissent. Communist governments do this because their system of governance defies human nature, as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn">Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</a> documented.</p>
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<p>Joe Romm has become a world class censor, because he can&#8217;t support the ideas presented on his blog. He wrote a nasty article this week accusing me of deceiving the SEARCH climate forecast team. I posted on his site clear documentation that his claims were false, and he refused to publish it or acknowledge his error.</p>
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<p>If your ideas don&#8217;t hold up under scrutiny, then your only choice is to try to shut other people up. What a sad and pathetic way to go through life. Sooner or later we all face our maker.</p>
<p>When people say &#8220;the debate is over, time for action&#8221; what they are really saying is that they have no answer to your question.</p>
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