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The Wall Street Journal Isn’t Even Credible on Economics

Written on February 27, 2012 by Bob Fischer in Featured, lede
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Robert Shiller accurately predicted the recent housing bubble long before it burst. But he got no more attention in the Wall Street Journal than Jim Hansen gets for predicting severe climate change. If they can’t get their own turf right, why should people listen to them about other things?

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Convenient Lies, Economics Version

Written on February 25, 2012 by Michael Tobis in Featured, Featured Media

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What a shiny penny!

Written on February 24, 2012 by Michael Tobis in Featured
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The penny drops.

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Ethical considerations regarding Heartland/Gleick

Written on February 23, 2012 by Dan Moutal in Featured
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Both ‘sides’ of the climate debate should be judged by the same set of rules which means we should hold Heartland to the same standard to which we are currently holding Peter Gleick.

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The Morality of Unmasking Heartland

Written on February 22, 2012 by Stephan Lewandowsky in Featured
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Philosophers talk about the “dirty hands” problem: are lies OK in the pursuit of truth?

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Singer’s Proxy Claim Refuted

Written on February 21, 2012 by Kaustubh Thimuralai in Featured
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UPDATED! Now with MORE SCIENCEY GOODNESS!!! Fred Singer is going around claiming that most “tree rings, ice cores, lake and ocean sediments, stalagmites… haven’t shown any warming since 1940″. Fred Singer is wrong.

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Zero Snark Open Thread: IPCC, Science, Politics, Economics,…

Written on February 21, 2012 by admin in Featured
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Anything goes unless some of your cousins, aunts and uncles or grandparents would think it rude at a family dinner.

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Here come the lawyers

Written on February 20, 2012 by Dan Moutal in Featured, News, Opinion
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Heartland threatens to sue those who comment on the leaked documents and Peter Gleick comes clean as the source of the leak. There will be lawyers and the public debate seems about to move further away from the science of climate change. But perhaps this incident will spark a long overdue interest by journalists and others to look deeper into the inner workings of Heartland and other ‘think tanks’, because it is well past time they received real scrutiny.

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The Spirit of Inquiry

Written on February 20, 2012 by Michael Tobis in Featured Media

Do this, please. And please spread this video around.

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Gleick: A Big Picture Interview

Written on February 17, 2012 by Michael Tobis in Featured, Featured Media

Pretty clear statement of the consensus. Almost any scientist would say almost exactly the same things in response to those questions. In fact, if they said anything substantially different, I would be concerned about their competence to discuss climate at all. But I wonder about public education stuff at the end. How should science be…

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The Wall Street Journal Isn’t Even Credible on Economics

February 27, 2012

Convenient Lies, Economics Version

February 25, 2012

What a shiny penny!

February 24, 2012

Ethical considerations regarding Heartland/Gleick

February 23, 2012

The Morality of Unmasking Heartland

February 22, 2012

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