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With Apologies to ...

….Brad Delong (and to you readers, for whom this post was promised yesterday)… UPDATE: Arrrgh. More apologies to all here. Brain bubbles affected my attribution of small pox vaccination … more »

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With Apologies to ... — 5 comments

Tom wrote 1 week ago: ….Brad Delong (and to you readers, for whom this post was promised yesterday)… UPDATE: A … more »

Tags: brain and mind, genes, Genetics, bad ideas, words mattter, political follies, Politics, History of Science, stupidity

Eric Roston Wins!: Judge Someone by Their Enemies, Dept.

Tom wrote 3 weeks ago: Eric Roston, author of the new and invaluable The Carbon Age, has done well, very well, in a two st … more »

Tags: Who needs science?, Climate follies, political follies, Politics, obama, Energy follies, McCain, radio, Cars

News Flash -- Dog Bites Man dept: John McCain does not care about global warming

Tom wrote 1 month ago: This just in:  John McCain, who claims that “he has been a leader on the issue of global warm … more »

Tags: bad ideas, Climate follies, Economic follies, Environment, McCain, Policy, Politics, Who thought that was a good idea?, Carbon

Off-Label use of a DKos Post

Tom wrote 1 month ago: Check out this — not so much for the snark about McCain, but for the delightful gallery of (pe … more »

Tags: History, McCain, History of Science, technology, Engineering, Age, Chicago, Sewers

More on the fate of science under Bush (and McCain?...) — 3 comments

Tom wrote 2 months ago: See this comment from Kevin on the Daily Kos thread responding to the McCain/science post below. Kev … more »

Tags: Who needs science?, political follies, Politics, Republican knavery, McCain, Space, Engineering, Science, stupidity

Q: Does John McCain Hate Science? — 7 comments

Tom wrote 2 months ago: A: Apparently, sadly…Yes By way of background: over the last eight years of Republican powe … more »

Tags: Who needs science?, political follies, Politics, Republican knavery, Science Policy, McCain, stupidity, Science, Budget

Program Notes: Frontline catches ... (wait for it) ...

Tom wrote 2 months ago: George W. Bush in a lie about climate change. So — I am in the middle of an ever-growing post … more »

Tags: bad ideas, political follies, Politics, Republican knavery, McCain, Weather, Bush follies, bush, Global Warming

Stupidity Kills: McCain/Vaccination edition. — 4 comments

Tom wrote 4 months ago: As promised, a post about this story. In my previous post, I asked what was missing from this seemi … more »

Tags: bad ideas, bad science, Journalism, Journalism and its discontents, McCain, Medicine, science writing, stupidity, Who needs science?

Why Can't Republicans (and Harvard Economists) Count? Housing edition — 2 comments

Tom wrote 4 months ago: I’ve focused a lot on the importance in thinking in numbers in a variety of blog posts.  (Thi … more »

Tags: bad ideas, stupidity, Arithmetic, Economic follies, Policy, scientific thinking, Economists, Economics, housing

Update: More on Huckabee's 100 mpg car (he wishes). — 6 comments

Tom wrote 6 months ago: In this post I ridiculed Mike Huckabee’s pulled-out-of-some-orifice energy independence … more »

Tags: bad ideas, Politics, Huckabee, Energy follies, technology, Cars, Energy, efficiency, Drag Racing


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