I was reading an article on California’s Proposition 65 in a journal called “Environment.” I’m now wondering whether I dare cite an article that appears alongside the following ad:
(The citation is William S. Pease (1991). “Chemical Hazards and the Public’s Right to Know: How effective is California’s Proposition 65?” Environment 33 (10), pp. 12-20.)
After skulking around nytimes.com message forums and reading exasperating commenters on The Atlantic, I decided to enter the “argument-by-comment” war on climate change by posting a comment on a Jim Manzi’s current meta-discussion of the climate debate. Typically, when I read these things the particular discussion is either so out-of-date or so dominated by nutjobs that I don’t feel like it’s worth contributing.
I don’t really know anything about Jim Manzi. But on this particular blog the level of discourse was pretty high and the latest post was fewer than four hours old. Plus I had just attended the Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology (about which I can tell you nothing or I’d have to kill you– well, let’s say, “sequester” you). So I felt both qualified and compelled to respond.
I used my real name and linked to my blog, so I decided I had better go ahead and own up.
