David Appell back

The first blog I read was Quark Soup, back in the days when the M&M controversy was interesting... gosh that was a while ago. Then he got burned out; now he is back, at http://davidappell.blogspot.com/. Good.

DA doesn't much like a recent WaPo article on GW, that focusses on William Gray. But I thought it was OK; good even. It gives a good sense of how the s(k)eptics know they are on the losing side (at least of the scientific argument) and are getting rather frustrated by it.

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