When Institutional ‘Science’ Runs Counter to Human Reason

When Institutional ‘Science’ Runs Counter to Human Reason
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Last week, a prestigious scientific journal came out with a peculiar article that made national news briefly and then vanished. It claimed that our habit of eating beef instead of chicken—or, better yet, beans and bugs—was responsible for warming the planet. The innovation in the study was to overlay beef eating with geography so that you could tell how much of this bad habit in your zip code was ruining the climate.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]