Michael Barone warns against allowing geeks with formulas to dictate global warming and health care policy for the same reason formula’s can’t be used to desribe our economy. I hadn’t thought of climatology as a social science, but since man does impact climate, not in the way Al Gore wants us to believe, it has become a social science.
It’s human nature to break problems down into smaller, simpler chunks so we can solve them, but not such complex systems. Unfortunately, phony science is a new religion, and it’s used to lead around true believers by the nose.
I saw a similar type of guy last night who was claiming to be able to use game theory to improve the decision making process (seemingly for governments) by prediction.
Yeah, ooookay, I thought. It was probably appropriate that it was either the same night or same show as a Nostradamus special. he he