Daniel Goldstein’s letter (“Puppet think tank,” Voice, Dec. 20) made my day. He attempted to undermine the validity of Joseph Bast’s various arguments by questioning the funding of the Heartland Institute.
He stated that the institute’s board of directors come from many major corporations and that the Board of Policy Advisors is “stocked with bankers, investors, economists and business school faculty.” As a Heartland contributor, this just verifies the wisdom of my donation. Would he prefer the “independence” of an institute stuffed with tort lawyers, government employees and union hacks?
But mostly I am thrilled by this sort of attack because it demonstrates that the Heartland’s arguments themselves are very persuasive, grounded in logic and fact and therefore hard to discredit. Thus, critics such as Mr. Goldstein must resort to questioning the motives of the institute.
What really galls these people is the refusal of so many of us to blithely accept their eco-nonsense as the “revealed truths” that they see them as. If chimeras such as recycling cannot stand up to the scrutiny of reality, then they deserve their place on the ash heap of history, along with so many other “save the planet” schemes.
