These "tribal truths" seem to fairly summarize modern political discourse - whether in the pages of Mises Daily, in "Tea Party" conventions, in the MSM or elsewhere in the intertubes. It's a point I've been making like a broken record - in order to mask my nefarious agenda...
In an earth-shaking ;) essay in today's Human Events, CEI 's Chris Horner comes clean and acknowledges that climate denialists and alarmists are peas in the same rent-seeking pod. We have encountered Horner, former lawyer and now full-time scourge of envirofascists on behalf of the firms that...
It looks like Lubos woke up on the wrong side of bed. BELOW is the type of "rational", "dispassionate" response that my previous attempt at discourse with Luboš Motl has earned from that fan of Bret "Mass Neurosis" Stephens . Just who is "sick-souled", anyway...
As noted on the prior thread , in a recent blog post, scientist Lubos Motl concluded that there " literally pandemics " of people writing stuff on global warming, and that is "simply ... no other help for the people who are writing most of the stuff" but " euthanasia " and...
[Update: For an ongoing case study of the startling irrationality and "sick souls" of some of the "skeptics", see my related discussions with the physicist Lubos Motl: [Update] Mind Games/Luboš Motl: how an absence of functioning markets means that I'm right, but you're...
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Here's a very interesting piece by Kristof at the New York Times about the reactions of Obama and Clinton supporters, and introducing cognitive science studies of why more information often polarizes, rather than bringing people together . Divided They Fall Simply, we are cognitively wired as tribal...