Original sentence: " Monbiot suggested that the story shows "that climate change denial is a matter of religious conviction.He commented that he was "amazed that The Spectator is prepared to run a story like this on its cover when a quick check would have shown that it's utter nonsense.It doesn't matter how comprehensively the sources have been discredited, or how ridiculous the claims are.People like Plimer... will cling onto anything, however improbable, that allows them to maintain their view of the world.Robert Manne, a lecturer on politics at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, criticised the "gushing praise" of newspaper columnists for the book and deplored as "a grave intellectual, political and moral mistake" the willingness of newspapers to "give books such as [Plimer's] the kind of enthusiastic welcome hundreds of others published in this country every year cannot dream of receiving..." In a similar vein, Monbiot criticised as "one of the gravest misjudgments in journalism this year" the decision by The Spectator to promote Heaven and Earth as a cover story.The quality of the evidence has nothing to do with it
Edited sentence: Robert Manne, a lecturer on politics at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, criticised the "gushing praise" of newspaper columnists for the book, and deplored the willingness of newspapers to "give books such as [Plimer's] the kind of enthusiastic welcome hundreds of others published in this country every year cannot dream of receiving..." And George Monbiot criticised  the The Spectator for featuring Heaven and Earth as a cover story, as  "one of the gravest misjudgments in journalism this year"