Gershom, you’re right about a number of things in your“Politics of Measurement” post. Science is never free of social, economic, and cultural constraints, even if the scientific method offers, by and large, a good way to minimize those influences and approach the truth. And proving cause-and-effect relationships in politics and relations between nations is a [...]

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Check out my article on how the planned extension of the security barrier into the Judean Desert will affect the landscape and ecology there. Here’s an issue that Gershom and I differ on and I’ll write more about the issue here later this week.

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