One Quibble with (One of) Angry Bear’s Rules for Discussing Climate
Over at Angry Bear, there’s a good list of suggestions, generated by one of the readers, of how non-scientists can assess claims made about global warming. I agree with most of them, except for the...
View ArticleTo Be Scientifically Literate, You Do Have to Know Things
After reading these two posts by ScienceBlogling Sheril (and the many comments) about scientific literacy, I suppose I’m in the minority about what scientific literacy. Unlike most of the commenters, I...
View ArticleBin Laden’s Death Could Affect Obama’s 2012 Chances-But in an Indirect Way
Part of the discussion surrounding the elimination of Osama bin Laden has taken a somewhat ghoulish turn: what does it mean for Obama‘s re–election chances? While I’m more of a zombies-eat-brains! type...
View ArticleI Suppose This Is Worth Substantiating, But Is Anyone Surprised?
This PLoS Medicine article came across the transom, with the following summary: These findings indicate that, in Finland, living alone is associated with an increased risk of alcohol-related mortality....
View ArticleFalse Positives, False Negatives, and Validation in Economics
As I always note before ripping into economics, we need better economics, not simply to disparage the entire field. Economics does matter. Anyway… Peter Dorman notes this about the refusal of several...
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