(ambitransitive) To troll as a concern troll would.
I think I agree with just about all the substance of David Brooks' concern trolling about the GOP (see, e.g., my final American Prospect column which made some similar points), but this minor aside strikes me as wrongheaded in an interes…
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(Internet slang) Someone who posts to an Internet forum or newsgroup, claiming to share its goals while deliberately working against those goals, typically, by claiming "concern" about group plans to engage in productive activity, urging members instead to attempt some activity that would damage the group's credibility, or alternatively to abandon group projects entirely.
Contrarians aren't "champions of the scientific method," as Pearce posits. They might more accurately be described as ‘concern trolls’, feigning concern at every little climate uncertainty or issue they can use to manufacture doubt and d…
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