wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 12/3/2008
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Gregg Easterbrook, a writer employed as a science expert by a prominent Washington think tank, evidently doesn’t understand basic science. Easterbrook, a prolific writer and editor for The New Republic, Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Monthy, and NFL.com, is a visiting fellow at the ...
scientistlive.com - 12/9/2008
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Easterbrook Idiocy Watch
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
It's not hard to find journalists writing about subjects they know nothing about. Gregg Easterbrook, however, manages to turn ignorance into ...
Death from the Skies!! Blogging
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... UPDATE: Brad Johson of the Center for American Progress is on the case
Climate contrarianism
Balloon Juice —
... Obviously, the only truly rational position here is to do nothing until we’re sure that aliens won’t pelt us with small asteroids traveling at 99 percent of the speed of light. ...
Answer: we’d never have to see Luke Russert Jr. on tv
Balloon Juice —
... Freak solar events, craters where cities used to be, bellicose civilizations hurling objects at the speed of light, what is it with wingers and apocalyptic fantasies? ...
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