Studies Prove... (Thomas Sowell)

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

[Erasmus]

I read that and thought that the right form would be "brillo-American," but then decided it would be better not to make that comment.

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[bybybill]

That isn`t even close to being funny

[Billthedrill]

Many people who complain about the corrupting influence of money never seem to apply that to government money.

I have personally experienced what certain government contractors are willing to do in order to gain or maintain their cashflow from Uncle Sugar. It makes Enron look like a fart in a hurricane.

[jeremiah]

What is wrong with THIS being his time?

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[stephenjohnbanker]

Nothing but a stupid, hiding populace.

[jeremiah]

It is a big money game, and people are turned off by the need to beg. That is why we end up with a Clinton, or a Bush. Instead of a Sowell or Thomas.

[common tater]

Dr. Sowell is a national treasure and his visage should be the first on Mount Rushlessandthinkmore.

[MIT-Elephant]

I thought I heard the libs say he wasn't really black...I guess this picture disproves that.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

it is a terminal case of naivete to put statistical studies under the control of the same government agencies whose policies are being studied.

. . . which puts me in mind of the economic statistics coming out of the Clinton Administration, which had to be drastically restated down closer to reality. But Clinton was untouchable because "the economy was so good!"

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

93.46% of statistics are made up, studies show.

[NCSteve]

Studies prove...

That Dr. Sowell is right just about every time. He's certainly nailed it here.

[Tax-chick]

Totally.

"Studies prove ... II" is on Townhall.com today.

[Gordongekko909]

I thought I heard the libs say he wasn't really black...I guess this picture disproves that.

Thomas Sowell is, in fact, a black man. What the libs you heard that from meant was that he "wasn't black" in the Condi sense of the term. He wasn't "keeping it real" by parroting the left-wing, identity-politics, whitey-done-me-wrong line. They meant that Dr. Sowell "isn't black" because he dares to do his own thinking.

Never mind the huge insult agaist black people implicit in this kind of thinking, though; the left cares about black people and the right doesn't.

[Gordongekko909]

I shall be posting and pinging shortly.

[lepton]

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 -

Actually, Wegman (a very prominent Statistician that the NAS had review Mann's work) showed that that appears to be exactly what has happened. Gavin Schmidt, a part of Manns cabal, tries to refute that discrediting of MHB98/99 reflects on the hockey-stick by saying his studies are supported by "nearly a dozen" other studies. A posting by Gavin a month ago about this in response to the Wegman testimony cited 4 studies: by Mann, Mann and Jones, Jones and somebody, and IIRC Rutherford (another member of the cabal). Unfortunately, I can no longer find the particular link. There are similar citations going back to 2004 though.

[clyde asbury]

What is wrong with THIS being his time?

IIRC, he doesn't want to be president. This further demonstrates his wisdom.

[clyde asbury]

Studies Prove, part 3

[Intolerant in NJ]

Actually, Wegman (a very prominent Statistician that the NAS had review Mann's work) showed that that appears to be exactly what has happened...Yes, I think Wegman was the name of the statistician claiming essentially that the peer-reviews being done on the GW work was "incestuous" (my term) - wanted independent panels loaded with statisticians, maybe a bit self-serving since that's his field, but his point that those in GW research were environmentalists and thus perhaps not all that strong in applied statistics, requiring some additonal scrutinization of their fuzzy findings, seems valid.....

[lepton]

claiming essentially that the peer-reviews being done on the GW work was "incestuous"

Oddly enough, that was the word I came up with too...and I'm not particularly prone to vulgarities.