- There is (still) something very wrong with our healthcare system. Via Yglesias Man Dies Of Toothache | ThinkProgress.
“…Now, clearly, this man made some sub-optimal choices here he’s not purely a victim of lack of health insurance. At the same time you have right before you a no-longer-living, no-longer-breathing example of the “push the patient to the edge of financial desperation” theory of health care cost controls. It turns out that the quality of a frightened, pain-wracked young man asked to make technical medical decisions under severe financial constraints is not very high. The social cost of 24 year-old fathers dying of eminently treatable tooth infections, by contrast, is gigantic.”
- The Austerity Economy – NYTimes.com
- Atheists and Sex Offenders – YouTube
- Fla. Pastor Draws Fire for Considering ‘National Registry’ for Atheists, Christian News
- Real Sceptic » Australia: The Next Great Hope For Our Planets Climate
- The Important Whoops, or Climategategate | The Moderate Voice A good overview of how the Spencer-Braswell paper creates a controversy for climate change deniers.
- Spencer Braswell: This is not New. This is the Way it’s Done. « Climate Denial Crock of the Week Peter Sinclair reminds us that Chris Mooney was prescient when he describes the climate change denial M.O. back in 2004 in CSI | Déjà vu All Over Again.
- CloudGate: Denialism Gets Dirty, Reputations Are At Stake : Greg Laden’s Blog
- Editor-in-Chief of Remote Sensing agrees that Spencer and Braswell (2011) should not have been published; resigns : Deltoid
- Holy editor resignation, Batman! : Stoat
- Oops : Class M
- Journal editor resigns over ‘fundamentally flawed’ paper by Roy Spencer
- Little Green Footballs – Scientific Journal Editor Resigns Over Climate Change Deniers Paper.
- Haydn Washington interviewed : Deltoid
- Perry’s campaign against the New Deal – The Washington Post
- Michael Ruse: Denying Evolution and Denying Global Warming: Is There a Biblical Link?
- Robert Shiller on the Economy | The Big Picture
- Global Warming: Separating the noise from the signal : Greg Laden’s Blog.
- Robert Shiller on U.S. Housing, Economy, Stimulus – Video – Bloomberg
- The Sickness Beneath the Slump – Economic View – NYTimes.com by Robert Shiller
THE origins of the current economic crisis can be traced to a particular kind of social epidemic: a speculative bubble that generated pervasive optimism and complacency. That epidemic has run its course. But we are now living with the malaise it caused….
- Weekend Business Podcast: Job Creation, Cantor Fitzgerald and Keynes – NYTimes.com
- Disproofs of God #1: Creationism | Alethian Worldview An arguement that a biblically based God is basically imncompatible with “a successfully engineered evolutionary system.”
- Myth-Making: People Doubt Global Climate Change or Evolution Because Doubters Say it So Often – ABC News Explores the Questions: Why are people so eager to embrace myths, even if there is not a shred of evidence to support them? Why are so many so eager to believe the unbelievable?