Sadly, it looks as if Michael Fumento has retired from the field. All I can offer any folks suffering withdrawal symptoms is this thread. James M describes it like this:
I noticed a truly spectacular example of what I suppose is the unarmed kamikaze approach to debate carrying on in the comments boxes. Not so much being savaged by a dead sheep, as seeing someone punch themselves repeatedly in the face. It is painful to watch.
But yet, like a car wreck, you must look.
More like this
“I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.” -Wally Schirra
We've made it through another amazing week here at Starts With A Bang, and what many of you might not realize is that there was a fabulous new release thanks to the support of everyone on…
I've debated (with myself) whether to post anything about disgraced columnist Michael Fumento's rantings that bird flu was a "Chicken Little" story (literally: it's entitled, "Chicken Littles were Wrong"). It was published in the far right rag, Weekly Standard, where Science is a dimunutive figure…
So it would seem.
West Nile is spreading beyond birds, horses and humans. A squirrel has tested positive for the virus and hundreds more are showing the same symptoms
People are finding squirrels in their yards or parks that look like they've been injured because they aren't able to walk. In some…
August 13th was Earth Overshoot Day. The correct date, if calculated precisely, would come earlier and earlier each year, the current choice is just an approximation.
This year, the year 2015, by sometime around August 13th, humanity had consumed as much of what we require from the lands and seas…
I'm sure Fumento has turned his statistical mind toward skewering the analysis found in
"The Effect of Electronic Voting Machines on Change in Support for Bush in the 2004 Florida Elections" which concluded: "Irregularities associated with electronic voting machines may
have awarded 130,000 excess votes or more to President George W.
Bush in Florida," and, "We can be 99.9% sure that these effects are not attributable to
chance."
Expect Fumento to concentrate his attack on the fact that the study was done at UC-Berkeley.
Actually, that one looks to be right up John Lott's alley.