Tonight like every night on 60 Minutes our contributors, matt taibi, Lara Logan, Jesse singal, megyn kelly, Megan mcain, michael shellenberger, and andy ngo talk about all the times people were mean to them in the internet.

Michael Shellenberger wants to re-psychopathologize gender incongruence. Shellenberger even has a “Director of Gender” hate at his organization & has staffers deeply embedded in the SPLC designated anti-GLBT hate group, Genspect. Michael Shellenberger is the face of modern day anti-trans extremism.

The people supporting these designated hate groups who it has become increasingly obvious want to institutionalize trans and nonbinary people in “rehabilitation” work camps all have names. One of those names is Michael Shellenberger.

"The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated Genspect and SEGM as anti-LGBTQ hate groups since 2023."

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He also has a pretty ludicrous view of how to deal with global warming and climate change. He wrote a book about it that has received significant critique. Shocker, he thinks the corporations should be left to their own devices and… magic, it’s solved!

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A big pusher of the "wind kills whales" narrative is Michael Shellenberger, who claims that research proving it has been suppressed (it hasn't). In standard Shelly fashion, he cherry picks facts His old pals at the Breakthrough eviscerated his "film" on it: thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-2...

Those researchers are now being threatened with lawsuits and funding cuts if they don't pull their research down...always the sign of a good-faith argument, no? More here: drilled.media/news/podcast...

Nuclear's comeback was never going to happen 'naturally'. People like Michael Shellenberger require fascism, dictators and safety-worsening deregulation to see their dreams realised.

This new thing involves Palantir btw. How cool

Rachel Pritzker already invested heavily in Michael Shellenberger to the point where he likely wouldn’t have been around to land the Twitter files without that financial support. So, I sincerely hope you’ll all forgive me if I’m a bit skeptical about that working out well for us.

Takes 0.001 newtons of force to nudge a centrist to support far-right, but the quickest way to do it is to frame things as 'debate' and 'civil disagreement'

As always: the climate delayers have been doing it for decades, eg Michael Shellenberger and Bjorn Lomborg

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As you note, this is Shellenberger spreading it over on Twitter to some success. Vaccine denial papers also get less attention here than over there.

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And now he's happily retweeting a government official trying to punish someone for their protected speech. And it gets basically no attention, and people will still refer to Shellenberger as a "free speech warrior."

I mentioned that exact same retweet in my post about Clay Higgins. Shellenberger spent years claiming that literally the most benign attempt by a gov't official to merely *talk* to a platform about content moderation was the world's worst attack on the 1st Amendment

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Shellenberger’s upcoming book is all about how the left, Dems and mainstream institutions are part of a narcissistic, psychopathic, ‘pathocracy’ and he’s been dehumanizing unhoused people since his last book San Fransicko came out.

Let's see. University of Austin. Not to be confused with the University of Texas at Austin.
Yass & Thiel & Crow ...oh my.
It's like a "who's who" of billionaires that like to meddle with SCOTUS and the levers of power.

Great thread!

Don’t feel bad for Michael Shellenberger’s son, Joaquin Shellenberger. He did a 2017 fellowship at dad’s disinformation organization Environmental Progress. He seems fully on board with his father’s disinformation and hypocrisy.

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He tried to do this here in Brazil with the twitter files br nonsense and was completely refuted. He was going to participate in a public hearing in Congress but left the country without even warning. It was the first time I saw Shellenberger and Musk backtrack.

Shellenberger, who for years has breathlessly spread baseless conspiracy theories about a nonexistant censorship cabal between civil society/academia, and government is now OPENLY ENDORSING CENSORSHIP demanded by an elected official.

The hypocrisy would be astounding if it weren't so predictable.