An open letter from a real scientist to Steven Levitt
This comes from Real Climate , or more specifically, from Steven Levitt's colleague at the University of Chicago: Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Louis Block Professor in the Geophysical Sciences. OUch. It makes me utterly ashamed to be an economist. Update : Joe Romm is relentless . It seems to me Levitt and Dubner should have eaten copious quantities of humble pie on day one. They didn't. Why not? Maybe because they aren't quite the hard-headed objectivists they paint themselves to be? Here are some interesting musings from Andrew Gelman on the role of ideology the likely underlies a lot of this, and especially its internal contradictions.