> There was a time when I encountered contrarian arguments like those made by
> Mr Levitt and Mr Dubner and thought, hm, that's really cool. In recent
> years, when I encounter such arguments, my tendency has been to think, yeah,
> that's probably a lot of hooey. If journalism is about to affect a turn away
> from contrarianism, it's none too soon.___________________________________
Interesting to see this in the Economist -- I haven't read them in a while, precisely because they seemed to do better at glib snark than anything else.
-- Andy