Studies Prove... (Thomas Sowell)

Townhall.com ^ | August 9, 2006 | Thomas Sowell

[Gordongekko909]

Thomas Sowell strikes again! Ping coming... now!

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[stephenjohnbanker]

Thanks for the ping. Brilliant as always!

[fhayek]

I defy anyone to produce a single syllable penned by this man that was not simultaneously true and profound.

[Brian Allen]

<< Thanks for the ping. Brilliant as always! >>

Doctor Sowell makes me proud to be his fellow (hyphenated) American!

(I'm an AMERICAN-American, too!)

[fhayek]

To hell with the hyphen. Either you are an American (no hyphen) or you are not.

[stephenjohnbanker]

B U M P

[stephenjohnbanker]

In another place and time, he would go down in history as one of our greatest Presidents : )

[George Smiley]

Dr. Sowell is a BRILLIANT-American, thank you very much!

[dsc]

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[VOA]

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[jazusamo]

Thanks for the ping and another great piece by Dr. Sowell.

[Gordongekko909]

Added!

[Shion]

I love this man.

If he can get a 25 year old punk rocker interested in economics, he can do anything.

[Gordongekko909]

Sowell could get a dead armadillo interested in economics. He's that good.

[ChessExpert]

Sowell makes excellent arguments that demonstrate the need for critical thinking. Each topic/case mentioned (economics, criminal justice, global warming) is interesting in its own right.

In an attempt to rhyme some of the wrongs of the world, I offer the following:

"Studies show" don't make it so.

"Science says" is a line that pays.

"Experts claim." I declaim.

[seancdx]

80% of ongoing studies claim that studies are great!

[Intolerant in NJ]

Climate expert Richard S. Lindzen of M.I.T. has indicated that the vast amount of government research money available for studies of "global warming" can discourage skeptics from being vocal about their skepticism...watched an interesting exchange on C-Span yesterday between a a congresswoman (from Tennessee I believe) and whateverhisfirstnameis Mann, who did the infamous "hockey stick" study purporting to prove global warming - she was trying to get him to agree to submit his data to an independent committee for evaluation, and he kept insisting that his study had been "peer-reviewed" before being published in supposedly reputable journals - another expert on the panel, a statistician, called Mann out, emphasizing that most such peer reviews were really done by others in the "social network" of scientists working in the field and thus weren't likely to provide a genuinely objective evaluation - he recommended that independent review panels be adopted for such studies where important public policy decisions might result based on study findings - Sowell is right on target......

[spinestein]

But there's only a 10% chance of that.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

what "studies prove" is often whatever those who did the studies wanted to prove.

Spot on.