Diminishing Returns

All of the emphasis placed below is mine; you're clever enough to figure it out.

Roger Ebert, alone at the keyboard, on An Inconvenient Truth:

"This film reflects the truth as I understand it, and it represents, I believe, agreement among the world's experts.

"'There is no controversy about these facts,' [Gore] says in the film. 'Out of 925 recent articles in peer-review scientific journals about global warming, there was no disagreement. Zero.'

"Gore says that…there is '100 percent agreement' among scientists.

"Am I acting as an advocate in this review? Yes, I am. I believe that to be 'impartial' and 'balanced' on global warming means one must take a position like Gore's. There is no other view that can be defended."

Charlie Rose interviewing State of Fear author Michael Crichton, February 2007:

"Every good scientist that I talk to says to me, '90 percent of the scientists agree on this…. Most of the scientists say 'We all agree on this, you know, that it is catastrophic.'

"Do you disagree with the idea that the majority of scientists who are experts in this area have a different conclusion than you?"

Whoa, slow down Charlie! Let me get a notepad to write down all these big numbers!