Friday, May 31, 2019

The irrational Delingpole

Professional Right wing denier of climate change Delingpole says that a dubious sounding treatment (regular massage of the limbic system) for a dubious diagnosis ("chronic" Lyme disease) has been making him act nutty:
If I’ve been incredibly rude to you or snappy or tearful lately, if I’ve taken offence where none was intended, or I’ve wildly overreacted to something you said on social media, I do apologise. It wasn’t the real me you experienced in those moments: it was the mad brain that sometimes seizes control of me.

The reason I have these episodes — as I keep having to explain to my bemused victims, after the event — is that I’m currently undergoing intensive medical treatment which gives me these weird and powerful mood swings.
But then, he talks about he's been borderline insane many times over many years:
Now that I’m on the healing path I’ve finally been able to take stock of my life and understand what a huge toll my Lyme years have exerted on me physically and mentally. There was a period — still too raw and horrible to talk about in detail — when I wonder whether I shouldn’t have been sectioned. Only recently, when I learnt that Lyme can cause psychosis and I looked up the symptoms, did I realise that this was what I probably had. I was in a dark and terrible place; I certainly wasn’t fit to make important decisions. God, if only I’d known what was happening to me, that it wasn’t my fault and that I needed help.
And gullible conservatives have found this guy's view on climate change convincing....

1 comment:

GMB said...

He's guessing like you are. He knows nothing. His ideas are all coming from libertarian happy-talk. So at the same time as he is saying CO2 is not a threat (true) he's also a bit of a booster of these firms engaged in GMO's. Criminal Jew organisations like Monsanto. Well thats just not paying attention to the facts on the ground. So you cannot derive anything from him one way or another. And conservatives more generally don't buy into the CO2-bedwetting story because the fraudsters cannot come good with the evidence. Not because of anything Delingpole might say.