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10/29/09: Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) assailed the authors of SuperFreakonomics for participating in the effort to deceive the American public on the science of g...
greenfyre.wordpress.com - 10/26/2009
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Many of those who read Superfreakonomics are going
to be left with the impression that they actually...
learned something about climate change. In fact they would have learned more and better science from a kiddy site, but they won’t realize that.
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Scary Monsters (And superfreakonomics)
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 10/30/2009
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Today, Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) rebuked the authors
of SuperFreakonomics for participating in a “continuing effort to...
deceive the American public” on the science of climate change. During an investigative hearing on forged letters sent by ...
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Inslee Slams SuperFreakonomics For ‘Absolute Deception’ ...
climateprogress.org - 10/30/2009
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This is a repost from Wonk Room. Yesterday,
Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) rebuked the authors of SuperFreakonomics...
for participating in a “continuing effort to deceive the American public” on the science of climate change. During an investigative ...
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Rep. Jay Inslee slams SuperFreakonomics: “People are ...
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Rep. Jay Inslee slams SuperFreakonomics: “People are still trying to write books to deceive the American public” on climate science.
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This is a repost from Wonk Room.
Yesterday, Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) rebuked the authors of SuperFreakonomics for participating in a “continuing effort to deceive the American public” on the science of climate change. During an investigative hearing on forged letters sent by the coal industry to oppose climate action, Inslee condemned the industry’s effort to “hoodwink, defraud, and deceive the American public now to cover up the toxicity to the world environment” of global warming pollution. Inslee then turned to Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, criticizing ...
Ouch … more Superfreakonomic Uber-Pwnage (all sorts)
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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… ...
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