by Henry Oliner | Jun 8, 2017 | Media, Politics, Progressivism, Science
from The New Yorker, EVERYBODY’S AN EXPERT by Louis Menand Tetlock also found that specialists are not significantly more reliable than non-specialists in guessing what is going to happen in the region they study. Knowing a little might make someone a more reliable...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 22, 2017 | Politics, Science
How Progressives Cherry-Pick Science They Like from Mona Charen at National Review Science, however, to be respected, must be purely the search for truth. The organizers of this “March for Science” — by acknowledging that their demonstration is modeled on the Women’s...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 3, 2017 | Economics, Media, Politics, Science
Jeff Jacoby at The Boston Globe writes a wonderful piece to start the year, What experts predict, reality will contradict “I think that you listen too much to the soldiers,” wrote the British statesman Lord Salisbury to the viceroy of India in 1877....
by Henry Oliner | Dec 11, 2016 | Politics, Progressivism, Science
from Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe, Healey’s Exxon witch-hunt: As a citizen and a politician, Healey is fully entitled to condemn fossil fuels, decry global warming, and express scorn for those who don’t agree with her and Gore. As the chief...
by Henry Oliner | May 23, 2016 | Business, Economics, Politics, Science
The internet gave rise to Google and Facebook. The iPhone gave rise to Uber. The ideologies are important only to the extent that they facilitated ideas. Our current development is less dependent on assets and physical capital than ideas. We grow in spite of...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 17, 2016 | Science
from Olivia Goldhill at Quartz, Many scientific “truths” are, in fact, false: For example, there’s massive academic pressure to publish in journals, and these journals tend to publish exciting studies that show strong results. “Journals favor novelty, originality, and...
