In case you're missing it, read Mark Thoma's excerpts and links (all of them) of the bigshots ragging on the Freakonomics climate chapter and today's Freakonomics' post.
Here is an excerpt from Freak:
Last week, a few days before Romm’s post, Caldeira sent an e-mail to Myhrvold and cc’d me as well. It included a chain of earlier e-mails between Caldeira and Romm.The chain begins with Joseph Romm telling Caldeira that he had read SuperFreakonomics and “I want to trash them for this insanity and ignorance.” Romm adds that “my blog is read by everyone in this area, including the media” and tells Caldeira that “I’d like a quote like ‘The authors of SuperFreakonomics have utterly misrepresented my work,’ plus whatever else you want to say.”
I understand that blogging, especially advocacy blogging, doesn’t operate under the rules of journalism (where you don’t feed quotes to people), but still: that’s quite a quote to feed to someone.
Yikes. For whatever its worth, I'll wait to read the chapter before I pile on. I don't trust Joe Romm, well-known economist-hater.
Update: Krugman responds to Dubner's email evidence that they didn't misquote.
