by Henry Oliner | Aug 5, 2021 | Politics, Science
From Charles Cooke at National Review, COVID-19 Has Given Us Progressivism Unleashed: Mercifully, this is not how governments behave when the issue is travel, plumbing, or beans. In the case of COVID, however, it absolutely has been. Since the pandemic started, we...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 4, 2021 | Politics, Science
From The Wall Street Journal, How Science Lost the Public’s Trust, by Tunku Varadarajan: The politicization of science leads to a loss of confidence in science as an institution. The distrust may be justified but leaves a vacuum, often filled by a “much more...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 2, 2021 | Global Warming, Science
From The Wall Street Journal, How Science Lost the Public’s Trust, by Tunku Varadarajan: He asks: “If you think biological complexity can come about through unplanned emergence and not need an intelligent designer, then why would you think human society needs an...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 11, 2020 | Science
A great essay from Matt Ridley in the weekend WSJ, What the Pandemic has Taught us About Science: excerpts; Seeing science as a game of guess-and-test clarifies what has been happening these past months. Science is not about pronouncing with certainty on the known...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 15, 2020 | Science, Social
From Unheard, Why We Stopped Trusting Experts: Ritchie’s section on bias also includes a clear account of some technical elements of statistical reasoning, failures to adhere to which are Ritchie classes as “analytic biases.” These biases include things like only...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 18, 2017 | Science
from Steve Milloy at the WSJ, A Step Toward Scientific Integrity at the EPA: The most prominent of the EPA’s myriad boards of outside advisers are the Science Advisory Board and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, or CASAC. Mostly made up of university...
