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Some think the internet is harming our ability to think and read deeply. For example, Nicholas Carr wrote in 2008: The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many, and they’ve been widely described and duly applauded. “The perfect recall...
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If the stuff here is true: http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmcaleer/2010/01/28/alaska-school-authorities-watching-a-documentary-film-more-dangerous-than-having-abortion/ Than I just can not believe in health sanity of authorities any more. I have my troubles with them but I assume at least some level...
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By Monty Pelerin , posted November 30th, 2009 http://www.economicnoise.com/2009/11/30/wisdom-eisenhower-and-michael-crichton-on-science/ Michael Crichton President Eisenhower Anyone can rent a scientist. But when Federal funding is at stake, it appears you can also rent a conclusion. In his farewell...
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In my initial post, on how Austrians strive for a self-comforting irrelevancy on climate change , I copied my chief comment to Stephan Kinsella . I copy below my other posts and some of the remarks I was responding to on Stephan`s thread , including the one that I was unable to post - for some reason...
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[Note: Stephan Kinsella tells me he has NOT put my posts on his thread on moderation. I believe him, and so (even as I fail to understand why I was unable to post a particular comment after a number of attempts), as noted I would in my original post, I withdraw my charge that he put my comments on moderation...
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[Update: Readers may wish to note the latest developments, as I note in these follow-up posts .] Stephan Kinsella - whom I have engaged before on the ramifications of the decidedly non-libertarian state grant of limited liabiility to corporations - has a new post up on the Mises Blog on global warming...
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The reasons behind the collapse of the banking industry and its subsequent bailout by the government are going to be argued by pundits and experts for the next hundred years. There will be books written on it. It will be the subject of countless Ph.D. dissertations. Political candidates will reference...
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An LvMI blogger sent me the following inquiry, which I post here - along with my response - as a public service. I note first that I am no climate expert, but someone who doesn`t mind a little scientific or other inquiry. Question : "I would like to see your response to this: http://www.rationalmind...
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Here are rather exhaustive lists of the skeptics' arguments on science grounds, along with brief analyses and links to underlying publications: Coby Beck: How to talk to Global Warming Skeptic Brian Angliss A Thorough Debunking New Scientist: Climate...
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Here are rather exhaustive lists of the skeptics' arguments on science grounds - coupled with brief analyses of the arguments and links to underlying publications: John Cross: Skeptical Science Coby Beck: How to talk to Global Warming Skeptic Brian Angliss A Thorough Debunking New Scientist: Climate...
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[Snark alert; See update at bottom] The Mises "Daily Article" for December 11 presents "Are Carbon Emissions the Cause of Global Warming?" a brief, unfootnoted post by David Evans , a self-acknowledged non-expert (who has once previously graced the LvMI blog) offering a "very...
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[Snark Alert!] A recent article in Nature Geoscience that shows that measurable climate change - this time the expansion of the tropics - is outpacing predictions. The actual article is abstracted here: http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ngeo.2007.38.html Amazing how the strong belief...
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What do Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Gore Vidal all have in common? They're all atheists and I've never never seen anything by them in print where they say a nice thing about anyone. Bizarely enough, all the atheists I've ever personally met are rather nice and tolerant. However...