Show and Tell

For show and tell I brought in an article discussing the funding by exxon of facts disprooving global warming. The supporters of global warming stated that it was all biased material because it was funded by a group who had an interest in it. This showed the real life application of bulverism. They never disprooved any of the theories. They just simply showed why they would be wrong. CS Lewis wrote, "I call it 'Bulverism.' Some day I am going the write the biography of its imaginary inventor, Ezekiel Bulver, whose destiny was determined at the age of five when he heard his mother say to his father - who had been maintaining that two sides of a triangle were together greater than the third - 'Oh, you say that because you are a man.' 'At that moment,' E. Bulver assures us, 'there flashed across my opening mind the great truth that refutation is no necessary part of argument. Assume your opponent is wrong, and then explain his error, and the world will be at your feet. Attempt to prove that he is wrong or (worse still) try to find out whether he is wrong or right, and the national dynamism of our age will thrust you to the wall.' That is how Bulver became one of the makers of the Twentieth Century." This shows how Bulverism came about. This article showed that it is still very much alive today.