Sarah Palin and James Inhofe, Mr Pearce notes, then absurdly accused Mr Jones and the entire climate-science community of trying to conceal an actual decline in global temperatures.This is nonsense.
As Coleman Silk, a classics professor chased from his job after being absurdly accused of racism, Mr. Hopkins has a loose, mellow exuberance that almost persuades you to overlook a basic, insurmountable improbability, namely that his character is a black man who has spent most of his adulthood passing for white.
In Grozny, they were nearly killed by a Russian tank that was firing into panicked students fleeing the university; they witnessed blocks of homes getting "cleansed" by Russian troops; and they were apprehended by the Russian police and, absurdly, accused of being snipers.
The trial of the defendants, falsely and absurdly accused of collaboration with the Nazis, was watched by British and American diplomats without protest.
She is now accused, absurdly, of being insensitive to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bill Clinton's talk of a "fairy tale," which was used in the context of the Iraq debate, is now being distorted into a condemnation of the civil rights movement.
A report published today also accuses insurers of using absurdly high medical claim limits as a marketing gimmick, manipulating customer rating systems and using incomprehensible small print to deny payouts.
(Pinto, in an absurdly complicated investigation spanning New York and Israel, later reportedly accused Grimm of blackmailing him).
Absurdly, Sadiq Khan, the Labour shadow justice secretary, accused the prime minister of "writing propaganda" for a far-right group that held a rally on the same day.
State governments are also accused of burying the problem, presenting absurdly low estimates of the number of scavengers working inside their borders.
