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...Friday at a health economics conference in Cambridge, Mass., is constructed from an analysis of reported autism cases, cable TV subscription data and weather reports. Yes, weather reports. And yet, it all makes some kind of sense in the realm of statistics. And it makes sense to author Gregg Easterbrook, who stirred the blogosphere this week with an article about the study on Slate, provocatively (and perhaps irresponsibly) titled "TV Really Might Cause Autism...
...Gregg Easterbrook is a senior editor of the New Republic and a visiting fellow of the Brookings Institution. Five years before Challenger, he wrote in the Washington Monthly that the shuttles' solid rocket boosters were not safe...
...viewpoint "Why We Shouldn't Go to Mars" [Jan. 26], author Gregg Easterbrook argued that we should be researching advanced methods of propulsion to launch payloads into orbit affordably. But Easterbrook needs to understand that this is not going to happen all by itself. Exploration drives research, not the other way around. Ben Parris Garden City...
...Easterbrook wrote, "Mars will still be there when the technology is ready." That is like saying we shouldn't go to Mars until we have the technology to do it in days instead of months. But would Easterbrook have argued that Lewis and Clark shouldn't have made their journey of exploration into the Louisiana Purchase until interstate highways had been built? I think our technology is ready now. Michael Gallagher Cortland...
REALITY CHECK: Gregg Easterbrook on why we shouldn't go to Mars...