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  • Dixy Lee Ray.
    Dixy Lee Ray

    …movement—Trashing the Planet (1990) and Environmental Overkill (1993). While conservative commentators took the message of those volumes as a rallying cry against what they perceived as alarmist attitudes toward environmental problems such as global warming, critics in the scientific community excoriated Ray for misrepresenting scientific studies to suit her arguments.

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    …movement—Trashing the Planet (1990) and Environmental Overkill (1993). While conservative commentators took the message of those volumes as a rallying cry against what they perceived as alarmist attitudes toward environmental problems such as global warming, critics in the scientific community excoriated Ray for misrepresenting scientific studies to suit her arguments.

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