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This piece is in response to a Congress Blog piece by Sylvie Stein of Forecast the Facts that takes issue with O'Keefe's previous piece in the Contributors section. Sylvie Stein's recent piece in the Congress Blog, "Don't help the merchants of doubt," tells a great deal about Stein and her organization. Stein and the authors of "Merchants of Doubt" are skilled in distortion and being practitioners of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, especially the rule to "pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." It is telling that Stein wants her views and those of climate alarmists to be conveyed by the media, but not those of people who challenge them. What does that say about her organization's views of the Constitution and the importance of free speech to a free society? Movements to suppress free speech believe that the end justifies the means. That is unsettling.https://climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/images_pics7_merchants_movie.jpg