May 7, 2025

What is the point of Harvard’s research?

Charlie Munger, chief investment advisor to Warren Buffett, famously said, “Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome.”  In the academic world, it has always been about publish or perish for researchers.  ...

April 14, 2025

Junk science and air pollution

We took one for the team by reading Particles of Truth: A Story of Discovery, Controversy, and the Fight for Healthy Air, by C. Arden Pope III, Douglas W. Dockery, so you won’t have to suffer through it. The book has twelve chapters plus ref...