I think you just reinforced the articles point. Coal power needs lots of lies to justify it, as per your own statement.

That is in fact because coal energy is a terrible idea. It has 0 upsides compared to renewable alternatives, and is on the whole worse than even other non-renewable alternatives.

If you have to lie to make it sound good, that's probably because it isn't actually good

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appstorelottery 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I think we’re still talking past each other. I’m not arguing that any specific idea is good.

My point is just that public acceptance itself isn’t reliable evidence either way: ideas can gain support (or fail) for reasons other than their actual merit.

	▲	amarant 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's true. The inversion of the quote is that good ideas require lies to lose public acceptance. Well, there's a lot of lies flying around lately. So it happens.