Today the deniosphere has provided yet another example of the crazy and paranoid conspiracy thinking that underpins all of climate science denial. WUWT deniers have wrapped up their paranoia together with one of the other constants of denial - defaming people. The
criteria for conspiracist ideation includes assuming people have "questionable motives" at best if not "nefarious intent". That is consistent with the incessant defamation you'll find on denier blogs. It doesn't take much for conspiracy theorising deniers to jump from assuming nefarious intent to assigning nefarious intent and screeching "fraud" and "fakery".
This little episode also comes with a less constant but occasional feature you'll see from deniers - that of wishing people dead.
Update: See below for a comment by John Cook on the Skeptical Science facebook page.
Fake experts
One of the
five telltale signs of science denial is calling on fake experts. Anthony Watts at WUWT keeps very strange company and looks to some very odd people as his fake experts. For example:
