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Ronald Bailey, at Reason's Hit and Run blog, offers his take on what's being uncovered in the British Climate Research Unit document dump: Forget the Emails: What Will the Hacked Documents Tell Us?
He cites British statistician William Briggs,...
Interesting description of an unintended consequence. I suspect a game redesign is in order RSN.
Sent to you by Karl via Google Reader: Virtual Mafia in Online Worlds via Schneier on Security by schneier on 11/25/09
If you allow players in...
Betsy Newmark has some comments on What is so disturbing about Climate-gate.
What should be disturbing to anyone involved in science or who just took a high school science class is the cavalier attitude to data and research. What raises scientific...
How are non-experts supposed to evaluate the merits of climate change? According to Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy, it's a matter of social validation. “Climategate” and the Social Validation of Knowledge.
Most of us, however, lack expertise...