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Climate Progress: Contrarian Chic: Why can’t the media tell the difference between an attack on false ‘conventional’ wisdom and an attack on genuine scientific wisdom?
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Daily Show pooches Superfreaknomics interview, big time
Greenfyre's —
... version) is that the new book Superfreaknomics has a chapter on climate change that is scientific gibberish. Not simply wrong, but error riddled nonsense. One of authors was on The Daily Show last night for some slow ball questions, with a nerf ball … and no strikes called … with Stewart both pitching and catching for Levitt.
Brad Johnson has done a very nice summary of the Superfreaknomics issue and the interview here (reposted here and here) The issue has been covered on this blog here, ...
Contrarian Chic: Why can’t the media tell the difference between an attack on false ‘conventional’ wisdom and an attack on genuine scientific wisdom?
Climate Progress —
... Brad Johnson of Wonk Room spares me the trouble of critiquing Stewart and yet another debunking of the Superfreaks:
On last night’s Daily Show, host Jon Stewart heaped praise on the contrarian approach to global warming taken by SuperFreakonomics author Steve Levitt, a University of Chicago economist. Stewart was baffled by the widespread criticism of Levitt and co-author Stephen Dubner, asking, “Have you stepped on a secular religion?” Stewart, often a tough interviewer, coddled Levitt, saying, “I’m sorry you’ve taken so much s**t for it.” ...
Rep. Jay Inslee slams SuperFreakonomics: “People are still trying to write books to deceive the American public” on climate science.
Climate Progress —
... triumph in this discussion.
Levitt and Dubner’s promotion of geoengineering as a “cheap and simple” alternative to carbon mitigation is in direct opposition to the views of Dr. Ken Caldeira, Paul Crutzen, and the world’s scientific community. Although Caldeira objected to the chapter and has since repeatedly said he was misrepresented in multiple ways, the SuperFreakonomics authors have continued their deception, joining the billion-dollar effort by fossil-fuel companies and the radical right to ...
Ouch … more Superfreakonomic Uber-Pwnage (all sorts)
Greenfyre's —
... Jon Stewart, Pwned! (by Jon Stewart)BPSDB
I was rereading Brad Johnson’s article about the Jon Stewart non-interview with Levitt of Superfreakonomics infamy when I realized that one of the links he provides is the Stewart interview on Crossfire…
Ouch, nasty, but so apropos. It brings up a couple of points worth mentioning in regard to the Levitt interview, so here is the Crossfire transcript, and here is the Crossfire interview: ...
SuperFreakonomics coauthor Dubner ratchets up the rhetoric: Our critics have issued a ‘fatwa’ (!)
Climate Progress —
... Muslims. Rushdie has suffered assassination attempts and decades in seclusion. Translators of the book were stabbed, shot, and killed, and bookstores were firebombed.
Despite this supposed global warming “fatwa,” however, Dubner is heroically appearing all week on the Takeaway to flack his book, co-written with University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt. The SuperFreakonomics authors have now enjoyed softball interviews from Charlie Rose, Jon Stewart, 20/20, the Guardian, the UK Telegraph, and others. The Diane ...
