According to the wikipedia, Chris Mooney has absolutely no college level education in science, including writing a scientific paper, including any laboratory or experimental science, nothing.
His post college experience is 100% as a journalist.
I am certain that journalists can receive excellent on the job training, and he is certainly in a rarefied atmosphere that enables him to literally speak to our best and brightest.
But really?
How does this guy advance so far as to become AGU board member while being employed at one partisan liberal journal after another?
Those of you that read him, when he writes on science, not on political topics, does he seem as though he understands the underlying science?
Anyway, I like to believe I am a progressive guy with college and post graduate work in science and engineering.
I think Mooney is loony.