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Before you can get help, you must admit you have a problem.

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It's too bad you can't come through Charlottesville and talk somewhere around UVa while you're travelling from MD to NC to MD. Virginia seems a little left-out, and we'd love to buy you a beer or five if you stopped by the University

I was also hoping to ask you what you think of my unified theory of denialism as the method of choice used by all anti-science types to create debate where there should be none. It seems consistent with your description of the origins of the anti-science debate, especially the cigarette and antienvironmentalist campaigns, but it's more focused on narrowing down the types of BS arguments to identify a simple set of rules for identifying and rejecting all anti-scientific BS arguments.

Drop me an email at GiveUpBlog and tell me what you think.

Chris, you must already know about this but FYI just in case, there's a new AMS hurricane seminar this Friday in DC. It sounds *very* interesting.

Awww, rats. Bad timing. I thought you would get a kick out of this national temperature report from NOAA that was released yesterday. They give a completely misleading headline about September being cooler than usual while burying the fact that temperatures have been well above average across the country since January. See my link above for details.

Chris, I heard your talk at the Ethics in Medicine Lecture at Duke University this past Monday.

I am sensitive to two aspects to presentations like this: content, and style. You already know your content is persuasive, but in a very subtle way the style of the talk was even better.

Too often, for example, those whose reasonings position themselves in opposition to public figures are apt to use the least flattering photographs of those people. I especially admire that you did not do this. That you used some of the better photographs of the several Davids and the president adds to the credibility of your presentation.

Thanks for the insights.

Anthony Waraksa