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BPSDB A Climate for Change Brigham Young University Pwns Deniers 18 leading scientific organizations He tolls for thee Dubya’s War on Science Chamber pot of commerce tries rebranding Meanwhile, the Superfreaks are: Supercensoring Pwned by George Will Getting hosed by The New Yorker Still using mind control on Jon Stewart

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BPSDB Why the on-going fascination with the error filled climate change chapter in Superfreakonomics? Quite simple really, it’s a rare opportunity to get some anecdotal evidence on whether the climate science blogosphere has an impact, what kind of impact, and how much. This particular issue is valuable in that it has spilled over into the [...]

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Jon Stewart, Pwned! (by Jon Stewart)BPSDB I was rereading Brad Johnson’s article about the Jon Stewart non-interview with Levitt of Superfreakonomics infamy when I realized that one of the links he provides is the Stewart interview on Crossfire… Ouch, nasty, but so apropos. It brings up a couple of points worth mentioning in regard to [...]

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To make Glenn Beck’s head explode?BPSDB “I really don’t know what I’m talking about, do I?” Jon Stewart Well no shit Sherlock! The question is, why not? The context (nutshell version) is that the new book Superfreaknomics has a chapter on climate change that is scientific gibberish. Not simply wrong, but error riddled nonsense. One [...]

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“When I looked in her eyes they were blue, but nobody home”BPSDB I thought I was done with this particular tar baby and would just leave it to Brian to keep track of the ongoing discussion of Superfreakonomics, but like others (eg here and here) I just can’t seem to shake it off. Actually there [...]

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BPSDBA week ago Joseph Romm fired the opening salvo in what became a hail of criticism of the forthcoming book “Superfreakonomics” by  Levitt and Dubner, particularly the climate change chapter which had been circulating on the web (albeit probably illicitly). Now the authors  have begun to reply to their critics, or at least put out [...]

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