Intelligent Design theory furnished the blueprint later used by climate deniers

Evidence

It could not be clearer that postmodernist thought had an influence on ID theory. It is also not in doubt that ID theory provided the blueprint for how climate change deniers would later fight their own battles: attack the existing science, identify and fund your own experts, push the idea that the issue is “controversial,” get your own side out through the media and lobbying, and watch the public react. Even if right-wing politicians and other science deniers were not reading Derrida and Foucault, the germ of the idea made its way to them: science does not have a monopoly on the truth. — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 281

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Science denial pioneered tactics now applied across all factual reality; Climate-denial think tanks manufactured the invented ‘climate lockdowns’ threat — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 486; Intelligent Design theory deliberately borrowed postmodernist tactics from evolution’s opponents — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 272

Broader Connections

• Climate-denial think tanks manufactured the invented ‘climate lockdowns’ threat #corroborates (0.72) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 486