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...vain mission to convince the clergy that the sun is the center of our universe. The German chancellor met President George W. Bush Thursday to discuss, among other things, global warming - a topic on which the U.S. leader is seen in the wider world as something of a flat-earther. And he reported after the meeting that they'd held a candid discussion but failed to agree over President Bush's decision to back out of the Kyoto Accord on climate change endorsed last year by President Clinton. Clinton, of course, had avoided submitting the treaty for certain defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Bush Bailed on Global Warming Pact | 3/29/2001 | See Source »

...George W. Bush may be a global-warming flat-earther, but Al Gore isn't quite the planet's knight in shining armor. He may be a deeply concerned environmentalist, but that doesn't mean he's about to do anything as politically risky as telling Americans the truth about global warming and what they'll have to do if they want to leave behind a comfortable planet for their grandchildren's grandchildren. Instead, the Clinton administration has prattled on sunnily about business-driven solutions in which everybody gets to maintain their current lifestyles, while Detroit miraculously comes up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why America's Close Election Is Bad News for a Warm Planet | 11/21/2000 | See Source »

...said the odds were "about one in a thousand trillion" against the shroud's having been woven in the time of Jesus. Edward Hall, a member of the Oxford team, went further still. Anyone who continued to believe the shroud was genuine, he pronounced, must be a "flat-earther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science And The Shroud | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...Mentally Ill calls Breggin "ignorant" and claims he's motivated by a lust for fame and wealth. The former director of the National Institute of Mental Health brands Breggin an "outlaw." The president of the American Psychiatric Association says the doctor is the modern equivalent of a "flat earther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prozac's Worst Enemy | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

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