Who put the “liar” in “liar loans”?
Megan McArdle has a fine post up at the Daily Beast on the housing market collapse. I’ve read far too much about how the big banks caused the problem. That’s true in a sense; they certainly rode a...
View ArticleHe’s from Yale, he must be smart
Dan Kahan of the Cultural Cognitive Project at Yale is getting very meta about the proper evidence-based approach to persuading the public that AGW-ist scientists’ conclusions are evidence-based:...
View ArticleLosing the jackpot
The conventional liberal wisdom is that the capitalist system has to be tightly controlled by a benevolent state in order to prevent the rich from getting richer and the poor from being trapped in...
View ArticleRules of thumb and unreliable models
We were discussing below the scourge of U.C.H. I am referring, of course, to the unintentionally humorous criticism by Dan Kahan of the “unreliable cognitive heuristics” of the unwashed masses. We...
View ArticleNever mind the AGW, here’s the real problem
We’re going to have to start setting money aside for this right now. Fortunately, it will have a long time to accumulate interest, so we’ll have some real resources at our commend when crunch time...
View ArticleFeedback
As I’ve often argued here and in the comments at House of Eratosthenes, one of the weakest points in the anthropogenic global warming argument is the heavy reliance on positive feedback assumptions....
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Chickens and eggs
Fun with correlation-vs.-causation: Why do climate activists hate longer lifespans? H/t CoyoteBlog. I see our Borg friend has showed up on CoyoteBlog, too.
View ArticleRegressives
A couple of old Coyote Blogs from the good old days before Hope and Change. First, how progressives are conservative: . . . I must say that on a number of issues, particularly related to civil...
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