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Scientists building the case against free thought and how to spread through media.

Has the scientific consensus about the increasing scale and pace of climate change rendered traditional journalistic concepts of fairness and balance obsolete?

Highlights from the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism's George Munster Award Forum. Every year in conjunction with the George Munster Award for Journalism a panel of Australia's top journalists and journalism academics take a look at their profession and how their work does or doesn't serve the public interest.

They're also joined by one of Australia's most eminent scientists, because this panel is on how journalists should report on climate science. The Minister for Science, Kim Carr, gave a speech recently in which he had this to say about climate change sceptics: "We don't have to accord superstition and wishful thinking the same status as science. This is much more than fairness requires and much more than reason permits. "

Source: ABC.net, November 17 2010