Unfortunately, I do upset certain people with certain episodes of Skeptoid.

Busting urban myths always tips over somebody's sacred cow.

Today I'm going to respond to a few attempts to make me pay for it by answering some listener

feedback sent in by people who didn't appreciate what I said or the way I said it.

I hope I'm civil enough in these replies, but you decide.

And you got your chance today on Skeptoid.

Come, listener feedback, denial, and aliens.

Time once again for a trip to the mailbox, and here what you, the listeners, have had

to say.

This is a great one today because I got some good, thoughtful feedback to offset the inevitable

crazy feedback.

So get out your letter opener and let's get to work.

We'll start with my use of the word denier that I applied to those who reject anthropogenic

global warming in my episode on the urban legend that scientists in the 1970s predicted

a coming ice age.

People of all stripes listen to Skeptoid all across the political spectrum, so I got

plenty of complaints for using this negative word.

Here's one representative email from listener Brad Tittle.

Any skeptic that uses the term denier is committing the first most fundamental fallacy, ad

hominem.

Anyone calling me a denier who won't spend two or three hours discussing temperature,

infopi, water vapor, psychotrophic charts, and heat balances is not a skeptic, they're

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