I think I’ve seen this sort of apology before…

From Melanie Phillips: The key point made by Lord Lawson in his lecture is, as he says, the flight from reason that all this represents. We are looking here at a situation in which the essence of scientific rationalism, that conclusions are arrived at only by the application of reason to evidence which is clearly ascertainable, has been systematically overturned by pseudo-science whose methodology is demonstrably flawed, whose conclusions contradict

Stark: “Ha!—the joke’s really on you, pals.  Because I actually enjoy being thrown on the ground and pinned under the feet of rich white men!”*