When Scientific American editor Michael Moyer gave a guest appearance on?Fox and Friends on April 30 to discuss future trends in science and technology, he was stunned to be told by a Fox News producer?that he could not talk about?climate change.
Moyer found it challenging to talk about future trends, saying that it’s a “fool’s game to guess at what technologies are going to exist in a half-century.” According to Moyer, the one thing that the scientific community is certain will happen is that climate change is going to worsen.
From his post for the Scientific American blog:
A 50-year-timescale is pretty far out. About the only interesting thing that the scientific community is sure will happen in the next 50 years is that?climate change is going to get worse, and that we’re going to have to?deal with the impacts. So I put that as one of my talking points.
Moyer says that the exact words that were said to him by a polite?Fox producer were “can we replace the climate change with something else??
Fox & Friends producer wanted to talk about future trends. I said #1 will be impacts of climate change. I was told to pick something else.
— Michael Moyer (@mmoyr) April 30, 2014
As for his overall experience as a guest at Fox, Moyer was definitely underwhelmed.
Went on Fox & Friends this morning. Kinda feel like I should take a shower. http://t.co/SjlFBPE0QE
— Michael Moyer (@mmoyr) April 30, 2014
I couldn’t sit in the Fox & Friends greenroom beforehand b/c watching the show made me crazy. Every single segment was anti-Obama agitprop.
— Michael Moyer (@mmoyr) April 30, 2014
Everyone’s in a bubble. Makeup girl: Where u think the plane is? Me, puzzled: Bottom of the ocean? Her: No it’s on a military base somewhere
— Michael Moyer (@mmoyr) April 30, 2014
Fox is in full denial mode, calling Moyer a “scientific coward.” Who’s surprised?
“We invited Michael on for a segment on technological and scientific trends we can expect in the future. We worked closely with him and his team and there was never an issue on the topic of climate change,” Suzanne Scott, SVP of programming at Fox News, said in a statement. “To say he was told specifically not to discuss it, would be false.“
You can watch the video in which they are ridiculing Moyer:
You can watch the Fox and Friends segment in which Moyer appeared below.
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Tiffany Willis is the founder and editor-in-chief of Liberal America. An unapologetic member of the Christian Left, she has spent most of her career actively working with ?the least of these? and disadvantaged and oppressed populations. She’s passionate about their struggles. To stay on top of topics she discusses,?like her?Facebook page,?follow her on Twitter, or?connect with her via LinkedIn. She also has?a?grossly neglected personal blog?and a?literary quotes blog that is a labor of love. Find her somewhere and join the discussion.
h/t Media Matters
