Left’s Demonization of Elon Musk Echoes Earlier Turn Against Freeman Dyson

Dyson’s skepticism about global warming won him few friends on the left.

Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Foundation
An emeritus professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, Freeman Dyson, on April 12, 2016 at New York City. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Foundation

In March 2009, the New York Times wrote a lengthy piece about renowned physicist Freeman Dyson, then 85. Four years earlier, Dyson began publicly to express doubts about the global warming or “climate change” alarmism promoted by the likes of Vice President Gore, whom Dyson disparaged as “an opportunist” engaging in “lousy science.”

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