Contrarianism's end?
Contrary to popular wisdom, popular wisdom is usually right
By The Economist
THE widespread debunking of the contrarian global-warming chapter in Steven Levitt and Steven Dubner's new book "Superfreakonomics" (by Joe Romm, by Brad Plumer, by Matthew Yglesias, by the Union of Concerned Scientists, by Paul Krugman, and by others too numerous to mention except that they include the main climate scientist cited by Messrs Levitt and Dubner themselves, Ken Caldeira) leads John Quiggin to wonder whether this might be the end of the line for contrarian journalism as such.
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