I’ve been receiving a lot of interesting material on both Lomborg and global warming, but this time I’m going to stick to my plan of putting aside, for a while, the academic scandals that have been dominating the blog lately. In the meantime, those who want more can visit Ken Parish for what looks like a mirror-image of the Bellesiles story, involving pro-gun economist John Lott.

I’ll just offer the following thought. In the context of political debate, if a recently-reported scientific result seems too good to be true, it probably is.