Talk about getting the contrarians' goat. Veteran and highly respected science writer Sharon Begley, in Newsweek, did at least that much with the newsweekly's "The Truth About Denial," focusing on what she described as the contrarians/skeptics spin machine against evolving science on climate change. The magazine's cover for this piece: "Global Warming is a Hoax.*" That asterisk is all important, as explained also on the cover: "Or so claim well-funded naysayers who still reject the overwhelming evidence of climate change." That piece, like the Time climate change cover, brought forth a splurge of pro and con letters to the editors. Interestingly, Begley's Newsweek cover also brought forward, and also in Newsweek, a stinging rebuttal in a column by financial columnist Robert Samuelson, along with a defense by Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham. [ Also see: Samuelson's column and Meacham's column, in the same issue with Samuelson's column, on the intramural warfare on his pages. ]