Gregg Easterbrook has been everywhere lately! Dissin’ on the space shuttle (in Time), dissin’ on hydrogen-powered cars (in The New Republic), dissin’ on chemical weapons in The New York Times. For 20 years, he’s had a pretty steady beat in the world of journalism: the don’t-trust-scientific-hyperbole, researchers-screw-up-a-lot beat. Depending where your faith in machinery lies, he’s either comforting or frightening.
Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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