RT if you agree with this warning sign
14 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation Tags: Anti-Science left, GMOs, organic farming
Richard Lindzen on back when periods of warming were climate optima
12 Mar 2015 1 Comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Anti-Science left, climate alarmism, green rent seeking, Richard Lindzen
Ample Proof That Cell Phone Towers DO NOT Cause Cancer
06 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Anti-Science left, Greens, Quacks
Tin foil hat brigade has a recruit in New Zealand. Thousands more cellphone antennas could be installed without community consultation under a proposed environmental rule change.
Green Party environment spokeswoman Julie Anne Genter said the Government appeared to have little regard for environmental outcomes or community input.
“We support National Environmental Standards but they need to be used to protect the environment, not to override the right of local communities to have a say,” she said.
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At Last Count: Global status of GMO crops | Genetic Literacy Project
02 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, technological progress Tags: Anti-Science left, GMOs
Anti-science Left alert: the Greens on GMOs and vaccines
15 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: anti-GMO movement, Anti-Science left, anti-vaccination movement, GMOs, green hypocrisy, Green Left, Greens
Another week in pseudoscience
01 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: anti-intellectualism, Anti-Science left, pseudoscience, Quacks
Organic yield gap shrinking? Study actually shows it’s less sustainable than conventional agriculture
22 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, health economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: activists, Anti-Science left, food snobs, Leftover Left, organic farming, Quacks
Denying Problems When We Don’t Like the Solutions
20 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: advocacy bias, anti-capitalist mentality, Anti-Economics Left, Anti-Science left, expressive voting
There is often a curious distinction between what the scientific community and the general population believe to be true of dire scientific issues, and this skepticism tends to vary markedly across groups.
…What causes such radical group differences? We suggest, as have previous accounts, that this phenomenon is often motivated.
However, the source of this motivation is not necessarily an aversion to the problem, per se, but an aversion to the solutions associated with the problem.
This difference in underlying process holds important implications for understanding, predicting, and influencing motivated skepticism.
In 4 studies, we tested this solution aversion explanation for why people are often so divided over evidence and why this divide often occurs so saliently across political party lines.
Studies 1, 2, and 3—using correlational and experimental methodologies—demonstrated that Republicans’ increased skepticism toward environmental sciences may be partly attributable to a conflict between specific ideological values and the most popularly discussed environmental solutions.
Study 4 found that, in a different domain (crime), those holding a more liberal ideology (support for gun control) also show skepticism motivated by solution aversion.
HT: http://today.duke.edu/2014/11/solutionaversion and http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/10/conservatives-dont-hate-climate-science-they-hate-the-lefts-climate-solutions/
Most consumers want GMO labels; but 80% also want to label food with DNA
17 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of information, economics of media and culture, liberalism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: anti-GMO movement, Anti-Science left, GMOs, quackery
What is a GMO?
04 Jan 2015 9 Comments
in health economics Tags: anti-GMO movement, Anti-Science left, GMOs
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