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Chris Mooney was at yesterday’s Congressional hearing on what is now euphemistically being called in Washington “sound science”: The House Committee on Resources’ “sound science” hearing I attended yesterday represented, in my view, a fairly stunning attempt by Republican legislators to cast themselves as the party of “science,” while pushing proposals that would actually deemphasize …

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I’m looking for suggestions on a good statistics book.

From this morning’s Albuquerque Journal: The Bush administration asked Congress on Monday for the largest nuclear weapons budget in U.S. history. The Bush administration’s request of $6.9 billion for nuclear weapons work is larger, in inflation-adjusted terms, than the budget reached in 1985 during the peak of the Reagan administration Cold War. That was the …

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Science writers like to make hay when scientists see something that’s, ya know, never been seen before by humans and stuff. But this (NYT, reg. req.) is about as genuinely “never been seen before” as it gets: two new elements, 115 and 113 (nominally “Ununtrium and Ununpentium” for now) created in a lab in Russia. …

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Something I wrote elsewhere, in which I invoke the work of the incredibly interesting Roger Pielke Jr..