Tag: bad arguments

17 Nov 2007

Profit Maximizing Climate Change Researchers

I often here the claim that goes something like this:
These scientists know that if they do research and results are in no way alarming, their research will gather dust on the shelf and their research careers will languish. But if they do research that sounds alarms, they will become well known and respected and receive [...]

19 Oct 2007

James Watson, Black Intelligence, and New Research by Fryer and Levitt

Comment:
Re: discussion with someone yesterday. Of course, this is the kind of thing that gets filed under ‘duh’ ex-post by most (non-racist) people. This may be the best of all possible worlds in terms of testing intelligence outcomes pre-environmental effects. However, intelligence is still a fuzzy word, and for me to accept the research (one [...]