Walt Whitman on conjecture and refutation
17 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: conjecture and refutation, Karl Popper, Walt Whitman
Cognitive biases of the anti-vaccination movement and the Antiscience Left
15 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, antiscience left, cognitive biases, cognitive psychology, conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
On appeals to emotion
11 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth disasters, health economics, liberalism, resource economics Tags: activists, bootleggers and baptists, climate alarmism, conjecture and refutation, green rent seeking, peak oil, population bomb, precautionary principle
The red flags of quackery
05 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, liberalism Tags: conjecture and refutation, conspiracy theorists, political psychology, quackery
It is not enough to say that the status quo is imperfect. It is important to offer alternatives.
04 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
Google University for Dummies
01 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: antiscience left, conjecture and refutation, Google, philosophy of science, Quacks
It’s the Trend, Stupid
25 Mar 2015 1 Comment
in econometerics, environmental economics Tags: climate alarmism, conjecture and refutation, double standards, green hypocrisy
If I had a dollar for every time a climate alarmist talked about how hot this summer was or how strong that cyclone was is evidence of global warming, I’d be a rich man.
They can’t then go around saying a sample size of 17 years is too short to assess trends will show evidence of global warming when they routinely use a sample of one for their own global warming alarmism.
Naturally, such is the high stakes of the never admit you’re wrong, never concede anything public political discourse of these days, if a fellow traveller oversteps the mark, you gain nothing from calling him out as someone who overstepped the mark.
Both NASA and NOAA report 2014 as the hottest year on record. Despite the new #1, neither the news itself nor the response to it has surprised me.
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Paul Krugman on the importance of not taking cheap shots in public policy discussions
25 Mar 2015 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, Public Choice Tags: conjecture and refutation, Paul Krugman, pop internationalism, public intellectual
Global temperature trends in the short and long run
25 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: conjecture and refutation, global cooling, global warming, ice ages, Little ice age
Beware the man of one study
24 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: Bayesian statistics, Bayesian updating, conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science, philosophy of the social sciences
An honest question for the Anti-science Left
24 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of media and culture, health economics, law and economics Tags: Anti-Science left, conjecture and refutation, eco-terrorism, philosophy of science
On burden of proof
20 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, liberalism, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmism, conjecture and refutation, green rent seeking, philosophy of science, precautionary principle
RT if you think this summarises the Anti-Science Left
15 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Anti-Science left, conjecture and refutation, expressive voting, Green Left, progressive left, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
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