The chain begins with Joseph Romm telling Caldeira that he had read SuperFreakonomics and “I want to trash them for this insanity and ignorance.” Romm adds that “my blog is read by everyone in this area, including the media” and tells Caldeira that “I’d like a quote like ‘The authors of SuperFreakonomics have utterly misrepresented my work,’ plus whatever else you want to say.”
Did you read the same post that I did? How can this possibly be characterized as mere "joining" in the debate by "intelligent readers". Isn't having pre-formed views completely disregarding opposing viewpoints (versus an honest attempt at addressing them) the antithesis of intelligent?
Let's not allow all this character assassination, and/or accusations of same, to distract from other intelligent readers who are, in fact, joining in the debate:
