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Re: [Pen-l] Jared Diamond and the New Yorker, part 2


On May 8, 2009, at 11:02 PM, raghu wrote:

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
That was the tyranny of stupid science. The Bush admin ignored actual
scientific evidence on things like climate change and teen pregnancy.




I don't disagree. It is just that it is not that easy to distinguish
stupid science from the sensible kind.

I dunno, there is this thing called the scientific method, involving hypothesis testing and reproducibility and all that. It can't answer all questions, but it sure can answer a lot of them.

Doug
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