Carnival of the Elitist Bastards #2
The second edition of the Carnival of the Elitist Bastards is up today here at home port — and we’re in it!
The Elitist Bastards are a neat bunch, and all the posts Dana’s featured are interesting and worth a read, but a couple caught my eye in particular.
One is Epi Wonk‘s post on questionable research practices. Proponents of “alternative” medicine and associated pseudoscience often point to incidents of scientific misconduct as a reason why modern science and medicine can’t be trusted, and that line of argumentation sounds persuasive if you’re unfamiliar with the scientific community. Epi Wonk explains why a couple bad apples don’t actually spoil the whole bunch.
I also enjoyed the good advice at Decrepit Old Fool on “elite” transportation (that is, muscle-powered). If we’re going to talk the talk about environmentalism and the rising price of oil, we ought to make an effort to walk the walk — or pedal the bicycle, as the case may be.
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