Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices -- and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions.
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Greg Beato in Reason:
It took less than 24 hours for the newspapers to begin calling for Pennsylvania's mandatory helmet law to be reinstated following Ben Roethlisberger's accident yesterday. But folks, Roethlisberger is a big boy. His life belongs to him, not to any of us, and he made a choice.
-- I have heard him speak, I have heard and read his testimony. I don't detabe with scientists, Lindzen included, but you are cherry-picking the science community if you want to use him while rejecting the other climate scientists who deal with these issues in the peer-reviewed literature and widely-authored synthesis assessment reports.