Obama is a politician, not a philosopher
I’m glad to see Ryan Myer blogging again after a long break. His recent post does a typically good job dissecting the Obama administration’s ratchet...
Category: Regulatory Science
Is science value-free?
Let me toss in a few thoughts on a debate that has been beaten to death, most famously during the science wars in the mid-1990’s. Do scientific judgments...
More about death by terrorism
Kevin Drum makes some of my previous arguments in this great post, albeit more briefly and eloquently. Check out an opposing view here, and some mediation betw...
All deaths are not equal
Right before New Year’s Eve, Andrew Sullivan’s blog saw some chatter about the tradeoffs between dying in a terrorist attack versus a car accident. ...