Tonight, ABC’s 20/20 devotes a full hour to SuperFreakonomics. The show’s five segments can be previewed online: handwashing in hospitals, the effectiveness of car seats, how practice trumps talent, the dirty truth about altruism, and last, but very much not least, the problems with global warming. [%comments]
Tonight, 20/20 Gets SuperFreaky
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You better be ready to seek shelter. Go on TV and say that carbon mitigation isn’t all that great or that climate change fanatics are like a religious cult? You heretic!
Nice. I already have a Tivo Season Pass for 20/20. It’s nice when two great things taste great together, like a peanut butter cup.
I haven’t started reading the book yet. Would you recommend waiting until after I’ve read the book to watch the episode?
John Stossel has a reputation for having unconventional opinions on various topics, like Levitt and Dubner. He always has a deeper and more nuanced understanding on these topics than most news reporters allow us to see.
Just got my copy of “SuperFreakonomics” and will start reading this weekend.
Glad you got it published, because after you go on TV and say that maybe we need to rethink some of the global warming debate, you will probably be chased out of the country.
You heretics.
Did you require them not to ask about any of the stuff that Joe Romm guy said?
So will you be explaining why a couple of Chicago guys, who really ought to believe in the efficacy of prices as incentives and the power of decentralized decisions made by millions of individual consumers and producers, have come down so heavily on the side of geoengineering as a solution to global warming?
Even if I tried I don’t think that I could come up with a more centralized and more dubious solution to the problem. This one needs world government action and bets the whole show on, or at most two, untested ideas.
Whereas a carbon tax gives us all small price incentives to change our behavior and then relies on our innate creativity.
When did you guys become marxists?
If you were looking for a topic for your next book consider this:
there is a substantial controversy in Canada over allegations of endemic price fixing in public road building contracts in Montreal Canada (we’re talking hundreds of contracts and billions of dollars). If you can spot cheating in school teachers, basket ball players and sumo wrestlers, this one might be easy and generate some public interest.