Honestly, Levitt and Dubner, the authors of the much ridiculed Superfreakonomics, are the gift that just keeps on giving.
The latest example is a doozy:
Ezra Klein – The law of unintended juxtapositions:
From Steven Levitt’s recent appearance on the Diane Rehm show:
Of course, ocean acidification is an import issue. Now, there are ways to deal with ocean acidification, right, it’s actually, that’s actually, we know exactly how to un-acidifiy the oceans, is to pour a bunch of base into it, so, so if that turns out to be an incredibly big problem, then we can deal with that.
Wow.
One can only wonder what kind of economic incentive they would cook up to collect all the “base” needed to “un-acidify the oceans”.
Read that reply from Levitt again, and tell me which grade a child would have to be in before you would consider it an acceptable answer in an earth science class. You can probably guess my answer.
