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- the dangers of burying facts
Readers of the New York Times may have noticed an article about the alarming resurgence of polio in several areas of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa; several immediately took to Facebook to complain that the US hasn’t been doing enough in the area of medical aid to less-developed nations. As ever, facts are rarely [...]
21 Apr 2009 
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- pessimism we can believe in
Yeswecanhopechange, it seems, stops at science’s edge: the New York Times’s John Tierney notes that his august holiness President-Elect Barack Obama (peace be upon him) has selected Dr. John Holdren as White House science advisor. Dr. Holdren was a key ally of pessimistic entymologist and alarmist Paul Ehrlich during the latter’s famous bet with [...]
25 Dec 2008 Economics, Politics, Science!; no comments. permalink
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