Comments on: Gregg Easterbrook is – wait for it! – an idiot

By: Fake Plastic Trees « The Poor Man Institute

Fake Plastic Trees « The Poor Man Institute — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:11:53 +0000

[...] But what about the almost certain although absolutely remote and highly unlikely possibility of an asteroid strike. Huh? And what does these carbon eaters do to repel alien gamma ray attacks? [...]

By: Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Wherein I agree with Jonah Goldberg and Gregg Easterbrook (sort of)

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:01:29 +0000

[...] puts me in the uncomfortable position of agreeing with Gregg Easterboork and Goldberg ; Easterbrook’s argument is based on faulty statistical reasoning and [...]

By: Recycling « The Poor Man Institute

Recycling « The Poor Man Institute — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:35:01 +0000

[...] is not, in fact, an actual argument. It isn’t an argument now, it wasn’t an argument when Gregg Easterbrook tried it, and it wasn’t an argument 12 years ago when Steven Milloy invented it. Given these three [...]

By: Don’t call Jonah Goldberg ‘Megalosaurus’: “Why spend money fighting Global Warming when we’re just gonna get squished by meteors?” « thump and whip

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:06:55 +0000

[...] everybody knows Easterbrook is a complete idiot. Second, even folks who have no science background can probably figure out that the sort of [...]

By: Sarah Palin News And Gossip » Blog Archive » As He Launches His Ass in His Opening Paragraph

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:09:19 +0000

[...] citing "science writer Gregg Easterbrook" (I wish I were dead) is not merely to square stupid, nor to cube stupid, but to enter entirely new dimensions of stupid, the quantum-moronoverse, the [...]

By: Craig Newyearsriver

Craig Newyearsriver — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:35:24 +0000

I’m reading an essay called “The New Convergence” by Easterbrook, and it has to be riddled with more logical fallacies, misleading statements, factual misrepresentations and out of context quotes than anything I’ve read in a while if not ever. You guys should check it out.

By: Wonk Room » Brookings Science ‘Expert’ Doesn’t Understand Basic Science

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:41:27 +0000

[...] documented that Easterbrook knows nothing about global warming and environmental policy, as have other bloggers. More simply, Easterbrook knows nothing about science. To wit, in his weekly Tuesday Morning [...]

By: Pointless Easterbrook-baiting « THE TOOT

Pointless Easterbrook-baiting « THE TOOT — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:04:12 +0000

[...] is Gregg Easterbrook, in which case we’re just glad he isn’t writing about sports. Death from above can be a [...]

By: Easterbrookian risk assessment « The Poor Man Institute

Easterbrookian risk assessment « The Poor Man Institute — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:37:05 +0000

[...] NASA is completely ignoring space rocks that WILL DESTROY TEH EARTH!!!!1!!! [...]

By: Cracks in the Slate II « The Way Things Break

Cracks in the Slate II « The Way Things Break — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:09:22 +0000

[...] public scientifically illiterate while being if not illiterate, severely developmentally-challenged himself. This coupled with his unwarranted and baseless equation of the threat posed by and solution to [...]