It's become quite a problem, in recent years, that the journalistic practice of "providing both sides of the debate a chance to speak" gets applied to ridiculous topics. It's something of a lazy approach, since it essentially implies that every possible disagreement is made up of opinions with equal merit. In other words, if I decided to claim that the moon is made of green cheese, then my delusion should be given equal weight as that of scientists who might state otherwise.
Chris Mooney, over at The Intersection blog, posts a wonderful rebuttal of this practice called "Blinded By Science".
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