Posted by Jay Livingston
- Call for Philip Morris. Researchers in the UK have done interviews with 5,500 kids (11 - 16) focusing on their attitudes about cigarette marketing. Now Philip Morris is trying to use the Freedom of Information to get all the raw data.
- Who do you trust? Why do people accept expertise in the physical sciences, but in the social sciences feel free to form their own opinions? Robin Hanson asked the question. Sean Carroll at Discover answers it. Hanson’s question is about economics, but much of what Carroll says is relevant to sociology. Besides, he includes a clip of the Stand-up Economist.
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