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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 3/22/2009

Chris Mooney vs George Will

— yglesias.thinkprogress.org — The Washington Post published a pretty good, though outrageously polite, Chris Mooney demolition of George Will’s nonsense on climate change. The article really does, however, suffer from the crippling flaw of pretending to believe that ... (more) Chris Mooney vs George Will

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Some Progress
Eschaton — I'd prefer newspapers just stop publishing horseshit altogether, but I think this not very polite demolishing of George Will in the Washington Post by Chris Mooney is at least a bit of progress. ...

The appliance of science
The Sideshow — ... and, much like everywhere else, Washington doesn't exactly fit that description. I read this and instantly thought of all the libertarians I've heard over the years who think that the market is some kind of ideal state where real-world rules don't apply. There, too, the problem is something called "bureaucracy". But human actors are a part of the market and even a part of the science lab - and that's politics, and politics is friction. The Washington Post let Chris Mooney rip George Will's pseudo-science to shreds: A recent controversy over claims ...

Will or Will Not
Shakesville — ... It took over a month, but finally Chris Mooney wrote a op-ed in the Washington Post that took Mr. Will's arguments apart and neatly pointed out that he was mistaken. ...