Jill Stephenson (Letters, 23 April) is concerned about Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie’s response to the Cass Review. MSP Michelle Thomson has accused Harvie of not respecting experts and denying science: “It is, in effect, a form of science denialism. That’s heading towards the world of Trump.”
This is a little hard on Donald Trump, because he was shown how it was done here in Scotland when his golf course was passed on appeal in 2007 against scientific advice. Similarly, 49 per cent of council decisions on wind farms, based on expert advice, have been overturned at appeal since 2007 according to the Government’s own website.
Celia Hobbs Penicuik, Midlothian
A leading Scottish Green, Ross Greer, has described the Cass Review – the very epitome of science and evidence-based research and conclusions – as “a straight-up transphobic and conservative document”. Mr Greer is not known for his intellectual brilliance, that is accepted, but his recent remarks were nonetheless mind-blowing.
To those of us who have to listen to the Scottish Greens continually lecture us on our approach to climate change, and scornfully inform those with a smidgen of doubt to “follow the science”, it is downright insulting.
Basically, he is saying: “Follow the science and evidence but only when it agrees with our Green dogma.” In the meantime, don’t follow the Cass Review science and let the potential damage to our most vulnerable young people continue unabated. Alexander Mckay
Edinburgh
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