"If you look at the Supreme Court decision, there's a perfectly reasonable decision by the majority and a very forceful and reasonable dissenting opinion by Justice Vertefeuille, who emphasizes that we do have a very clear public policy against discrimination," he said.
The letters, sent to scientists in Britain, the US and elsewhere, attack the UN's panel as "resistant to reasonable criticism and dissent and prone to summary conclusions that are poorly supported by the analytical work" and ask for essays that "thoughtfully explore the limitations of climate model outputs".
"I think there is paranoia among the ruling class that if they give too much leeway to dissent, however reasonable, others may start to challenge their authority more and more," Mr. Muscati said.
Frances Rothschild, the presiding justice for the 2nd appellate district, disagreed in a three-page dissent, saying reasonable jurors would not have understood Hunter's comments to say that plumbers are liars.
In Michigan v. Bryant a six-justice majority (Scalia and Ginsburg dissenting) emphasized that the intents of both a reasonable speaker and questioner in the circumstances are relevant to determining primary purpose.
To be reasonable, when a government is manipulating and misrepresenting scientific findings, is to dissent.
"To be reasonable, when a government is manipulating and misrepresenting scientific findings, is to dissent," Monbiot says.
To be reasonable, when it is helping to destroy human life and the natural world, is to dissent.
But the fact that voices of dissent from the intelligence community were ignored, if not punished, makes it a reasonable possibility.
Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivered a scathing dissent to the court upholding President Donald Trump's travel ban Tuesday, saying "a reasonable observer would conclude that the Proclamation was motivated by anti-Muslim animus". .
