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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (25948)	12/2/2009 1:03:50 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 36917

And Levitt takes on Monbiot. Goes to show ya never can tell. Excuse me while I go to services at the Church of Gravity Sucks. Every Tues, ya know. The Global Warming Email We’ve All Been Waiting For By STEVEN D. LEVITT I got a good chuckle out of this piece by George Monbiot in the Guardian about the recent global warming e-mail controversy. My view is that the emails aren’t that damaging. Is it surprising that scientists would try to keep work that disagrees with their findings out of journals? When I told my father that I was sending my work saying car seats are not that effective to medical journals, he laughed and said they would never publish it because of the result, no matter how well done the analysis was. (As is so often the case, he was right, and I eventually published it in an economics journal.) Within the field of economics, academics work behind the scenes constantly trying to undermine each other. I’ve seen economists do far worse things than pulling tricks in figures. When economists get mixed up in public policy, things get messier. So it is not at all surprising to me that climate scientists would behave the same way. freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com