This blog has written before (in relation to Arts and Letters Daily) about how one of the most powerful motives in journalism is the desire to be a maverick. It's as if the only opinion that's going to get heard is a contrarian one.
In a post on his blog titled 'A counterintuitive train wreck' the Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman picks up on Joe Romm's verdict on Superfreakonomics to say how often the temptation to be counterintuitive can just be 'plain, unforgivably wrong'.
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #13 2024
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Open access notables
*A survey of interventions to actively conserve the frozen North*, van
Wijngaarden et al., *Climatic Change:*
*The frozen elements o...
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