Nate Silver Picks One Of Most Notorious Scientists For Climate Science Section Of FiveThirtyEight
Why would a guy dedicated to smart mathematical analysis hire a climate change denier to head his environmental department?
Via Clean Technica:
Yikes, here’s some bad news for who were hoping for useful climate science analysis from Nate Silver’s new website, FiveThirtyEight:
Nate Silver’s highly anticipated data-driven news site FiveThirtyEight launched on Monday, with a controversial figure covering science issues. Silver has brought on Roger Pielke, Jr., a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, as a contributing writer – a political scientist who comes with a long history of data distortion and confrontations with climate scientists.
“Given Nate’s professed obsession with rigorous statistica...
