Question credibility

I read with interest the Perspective-section commentary by Dr. Brian Joondeph denouncing climate change as unproven despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This begs the question: Why is the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette publishing opinions regarding climate change from an eye doctor from Denver as if he is some type of an expert on climate change?

I suspect he, as a physician, is well-versed in the scientific method, as he claims to be. But how does this translate into an expert on all things scientific? I certainly wouldn’t take seriously a climate scientist spouting off opinions regarding the practice of medicine.

Everybody has a right to an opinion. The question is about credibility. If you push every loudmouth with an opinion to the forefront regardless of qualifications, then you might as well give equal time to flat-earthers and Holocaust deniers. There are still plenty of people out there who deny that man ever landed on the moon or that the HIV virus causes AIDS.

The chance that 97 percent of climate scientists around the world are somehow conspiring to fabricate the idea of climate change is farcical. If your newspaper desires to publish dissenting opinions regarding climate change, then please have one presented by a credible climate scientist. And good luck finding one. JAMES ABRAHAM

Little Rock