I am troubled by this wholesale dismissal of sources.  this kind of reminds me of the young US Marine interviewed on his way to Iraq...  "Aren't you troubled to be going over there to fight a war that was based on lies?" said the reporter.  "After all, we now know there were no WMD, and the Iraqis had nothing to do with 9/11."  The young grunt shrugged dismissively:  "That's just what the liberals say.  I don't pay any attention to their bullshit."  (wtte).

if we decide that everything Greenpeace or SdN publishes is de facto untrustworthy, then we eliminate what is often the first or only reportage of investigative journalism and/or citizen complaint.  whom should we regard as trustworthy?  official government bulletins?  surely -- despite the relative excellence of the French bureaucracy and technocracy -- alert citizens should always keep an ear open to dissenting and oppositional voices.  even the French are not governed by angels :-)

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