Dec 10 2009
Chalk One up for Science, as if Science, were subject to Popular Vote …
(If that were true, guess who would of won in 2000?)
NBC’s Andrea Mitchell interviews Al Gore
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21…
MITCHELL: Palin calls it “junk science.” She says, “The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won’t change the weather, but they would change our economy for the worst.”
What’s your response to that?
Nov 13 2009
There are many, many serious problems out there.
And, there are real opportunities to be had from taking on those challenges in smart ways…
Sadly, too much attention is given to those who deceive about the challenges and distort the implications of the options before us.
Best-seller lists, the air waves, oped pages, and blog posts have been filled with Steven Levitt’s and Steven Dubner’s shallow, truthiness-laden Superfreakonomics. The continued attention feeds on itself, as ignoring the deceptions and the mediocre interviews booked due to the authors’ Super(freaky)star status has the problem of giving it credence due to non-truthful truthiness and misleading mediocrity on the critical issue of climate change science and other issues. There essentially innumerable works more worthy of our attention and engagement, even if we constrain ourselves simply to books also published in 2009.
Thus, after the fold, ten books published this year that are more worthy of your time and money that the shallow distortions from the Super Freaky Economists of Superfreakonomics.
Mar 10 2009
Many in the Republican “base” found John McCain an outrage, his policy views and perspectives abhorrent, not least of which that he deigns to consider reality in stating that Global Warming is a serious issue meriting attention (even if his policy prescriptions aren’t enough).
Well, what does the Glorious Leader of the Republican Party have to say about this?
“Despite the hysterics of a few pseudo-scientists, there is no reason to believe in global warming.” Rush Limbaugh, 1993
Ah, words that could warm the cockles of even the cold heart of George “Will-ful Deceit” Will.
Jun 14 2008
Over at big Orange, The Open Science Thread
by DarkSyde has a link at the bottom to a very enlightening story…
Why the Right Wing Attacks Science at Effect Measure lays out the war on science, and it’s been going on for 30 years, and escalated for the last 16…
Oct 20 2007
I posted a similar diary at dailykos so if you don’t want to read this, it is OK.
Stossel diary
(I just got so frustrated with the 300 to 1150 characters thing….it took me an hour to figure it out!)
Last night, I watched John Stossel on 20/20. I hadn’t watched 20/20 in a long time, now I remember why!