Job vacancy at WUWT: Wanted - a young charismatic conspiracy theorising scientist

There's a job going at WUWT for a charismatic young scientist. This charismatic young scientist needs the following attributes:

• Subscribes to the conspiracy theory that "climate science is a hoax"
• Is willing to deny that humans are causing global warming
• Doesn't vote Republican (it is assumed that the scientist will be from the USA)
• Appeals to US-style libertarians
• Isn't an anti-vaxxer
• Isn't a flat-earther
• Isn't a young earth creationist
• Doesn't (openly) subscribe to any other well-known conspiracy theory like "NASA faked the moon landing"; 911-truth; birtherism etc
• Knows how to spell "pause", and isn't shy about saying "pause, pause, pause" every time someone points to the rapid rise in surface temperature, ocean heat, melting ice etc
• Is willing to waffle and avoid mentioning any climate science
• Is able to figure out what he or she "stands for"
• "Believes" that CO2 is a greenhouse gas
• "Believes" that greenhouse gases don't work any more

WUWT proposes harassment and lawsuits to stop climate research

Matt Manos is going great guns with his conspiratorial thinking over at WUWT (archived here). He comes across as a real nutter, albeit one who can manage to write an entire sentence with proper use of nouns and verbs. Flush with his success at flushing out all his fellow WUWT conspiracy theorists, today he's urging WUWT-ers to spam governments with FOIA requests. Matt wants to get to the bottom of what he thinks is a giant climate conspiracy. He wrote, using the same "sheeple" concept from his last article:

In my previous post, Why It’s So Hard to Convince Warmists, I introduced the concept of bellwethers and rational ignorance to explain why it’s so hard to convince warmists using empirical evidence. 

WUWT's "sheeple" conspiracy nuttery - and forecasting God

You might have noticed a comment by Matt Manos the other day. He was about the only person who understood what President Obama was saying, when Eric "eugenics" Worrall wrote his silly article. Matt spoiled it by swerving off into an utter nutter conspiracy.

Matt Manos' "sheeple" conspiracy theory

Well, today Matt's expanded his conspiracy theory (archived here). He's using the "sheeple" argument that's a favourite of crank conspiracy theorists the world over.

The "sheeple" argument goes like this. People don't "believe [insert conspiracy theory of the day here] because they are "sheeple" who are:

• incapable of thinking for themselves
• brainwashed by some unseen, unknown higher power
• in thrall or in fear of authority (variously experts, government officials, common sense)

Matt's article has all the hallmarks of the classic conspiracy theory.