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The Freakonomics solution to finding yourself in a hole
The Freakonomics solution to finding yourself in a hole
Or: Levitt and Dubner Keep Digging, Part One You’d think that the authors of a pop-econ best seller would be familiar with the sunk cost effect. You’d be wrong . Criticism of Levitt and Dubner’s (L&D from here on) atrocious chapter on climate has been swift and ...
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Rep. Jay Inslee slams SuperFreakonomics: “People are still trying to write books to deceive the American public” on climate science.
Climate Progress — ... Dr. Caldeira I’ve spoken to personally. He’s told me we have to solve ocean acidification. You can’t solve ocean acidification without controlling CO2 and yet people are still trying to write books to deceive the American public. And we ought to blow the whistle on them, we’re blowing the whistle on one today, we’ll continue to do it, because ultimately science is going to triumph in this discussion. Levitt and Dubner’s promotion of geoengineering as a “cheap and simple” alternative to carbon mitigation is in direct ...

Ouch … more Superfreakonomic Uber-Pwnage (all sorts)
Greenfyre's — ... The Way Things Break really shreds the Superfreaks for their shoddy, misleading treatment of geo-engineering, and the weasly response to the legitmate criticism of their work: ...

Another week of GW News, November 1, 2009
A Few Things Ill Considered — ... Temps 2009/10/30: ClimateP: Rep. Jay Inslee slams SuperFreakonomics: "People are still trying to write books to deceive the American public" on climate science. 2009/10/30: JQuiggin: Unforgivable, at least by me [superfree] 2009/10/29: Deltoid: Dubner falsely claims that ocean acidification is addressed in Superfreakonomics 2009/10/29: RealClimate: An open letter to Steve Levitt 2009/10/29: BSD: My last, somewhat contrarian, Superfreaks post 2009/10/29: TWTB: The Freakonomics solution to finding yourself in a hole -- Or: Levitt and Dubner Keep ...

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