Virginia Postrel reiterates a point that I’ve made many times–that even if we accept a scientific consensus on climate change doesn’t mean that we should blindly follow their advice on what to do about it:
…even assuming that scientists agree on the facts, science can only tell us something about the state of the world. It cannot tell us what policy is the best to adopt. Scientists’ preferences are not “science.” You cannot go from an “is” (science) to an “ought” (policy).
Katie Couric says that the problem is that the viewers weren’t ready for her.
Well, she’s right. I know I wasn’t.
Katie Couric says that the problem is that the viewers weren’t ready for her.
Well, she’s right. I know I wasn’t.
Katie Couric says that the problem is that the viewers weren’t ready for her.
Well, she’s right. I know I wasn’t.
Perhaps because they find it too inconvenient:
If Israel sent the IDF three kilometers into Lebanon and started digging trenches and building bunkers it would make news all over the world. But Syria does it and everyone shrugs. Hardly anyone even knows it happened at all.
Syria can, apparently, get away with just about anything. I could hardly blame Assad at this point if he believes, after such an astonishing non-response, that he can reconquer Beirut. So far he can kill and terrorize and invade and destroy with impunity, at least up to a point. What is that point? Has anyone in the U.S., Israel, the Arab League, the European Union, or the United Nations even considered the question?
While reading Michael Belfiore’s new book
While reading Michael Belfiore’s new book
While reading Michael Belfiore’s new book
Thomas James has a link roundup.
And don’t miss this speech from NASA’s head congressional liaison:
Scarcely a week after the Challenger accident, President Reagan gave his State of the Union. And to a nation still in mourning he declared,
Here’s an excellent example of why the monolithic, “study it forever and then select a single concept” NASA approach is the wrong way to do vehicle development. With private enterprise in the game, and competing concepts, we’ll be able to let the market sort out which is best. And I’ll bet that there’s market for both.