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Pwnage Made Easy | The Loom
added on 31 Oct 2009
I smell an anthology here: a collection of the all-time greatest take-downs, in which scientists expose lazy thinking. How about, The Best Pwnage of 2009? My own latest nomination: In the new book Superfreakonomics, economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner make lots of provocative cl...
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Pwnage Made Easy | The Loom
posted to The Loom on 30 Oct 2009
I smell an anthology here: a collection of the all-time greatest take-downs, in which scientists expose lazy thinking. How about, The Best Pwnage of 2009? My own latest nomination: In the new book Superfreakonomics, economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner make lots of provocative cl...
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Pwnage Made Easy | The Loom
posted to Bad Astronomy on 31 Oct 2009
I smell an anthology here: a collection of the all-time greatest take-downs, in which scientists expose lazy thinking. How about, The Best Pwnage of 2009? My own latest nomination: In the new book Superfreakonomics, economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner make lots of provocative cl...
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Climate Progress is Technorati’s top-ranked “Green” website, but …
posted to Climate Progress on 03 Nov 2009
… anti-green WattsUpWithThat.com is #2! By this categorization, why isn’t the Drudge Report the #1 Green website? I regularly use Technorati to check who is linking to CP, and stumbled across the fact that last month they totally redesigned their “Technorati Authority” and added a topical ranki...
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Raymond T. Pierrehumbert’s Letter to Steven Levitt | The Intersection
posted to Bad Astronomy on 03 Nov 2009
This is devastating. RealClimate’s Raypierre shows just how uninformed the Freakonomics guys are on climate change and the viability of solar energy, just how easily they could have informed themselves, and ends with a map of the University of Chicago campus, showing that Levitt only needed to wa...
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posted to The Loom on 30 Oct 2009
This is devastating. RealClimate’s Raypierre shows just how uninformed the Freakonomics guys are on climate change and the viability of solar energy, just how easily they could have informed themselves, and ends with a map of the University of Chicago campus, showing that Levitt only needed to wa...
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A devastating response
posted to A Man With A Ph.D. on 01 Nov 2009
by SophieG* An open letter to Steve Levitt: [Via RealClimate] Dear Mr. Levitt, The problem of global warming is so big that solving it will require creative thinking from many disciplines. Economists have much to contribute to this effort, particularly with regard to the question of how various ...
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The Real Problem with Real Global Warming being thought of as Real. Or not.
posted to Greg Laden's Blog on 31 Oct 2009
By now there have been many detailed dissections of everything that is wrong with the treatment of climate in Superfreakonomics , but what has been lost amidst all that extensive discussion is how really simple it would have been to get this stuff right.... Please read this post at Real Climate ...
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Dogs, SUV's, and Freaks
posted to Only In It For The Gold on 31 Oct 2009
Ray's excellent takedown of Freakonomics in RealClimate has me shaking my head about people's abilities to discuss even the arithmetic, never mind the algebra or calculus or statistics, of global sustainability issues.Of course, Ray is exactly right, not just in the substance, but in the fact tha...
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Pwnage Made Easy | The Loom
posted to Cosmic Variance on 03 Nov 2009
I smell an anthology here: a collection of the all-time greatest take-downs, in which scientists expose lazy thinking. How about, The Best Pwnage of 2009? My own latest nomination: In the new book Superfreakonomics, economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner make lots of provocative cl...
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