Chris and Christopher start this week with the heat, firing up criticisms from last weeks gun segments and cooling off with a history lesson on Asian internment camps and Mexican forced deportation. Gold digger Kanye is made fun of for a decent amount of time and then the dark head of science reared itself, to talk about the Appendix? It was cool, trust us. Next Pascal's wager was perverted with climate change and the funky logic will be published on the blog for all to critique. Finally, the show was closed out on a warm cloud of Marijuana legalization banter and a skeptical look at what the President will do to replace Antonin Scalia. This one has something for everyone.
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00:00 Gun Control 2 / Day of Remembrance / Kayne West Woes
27:33 Science Segment "The Appendix" / Pascal Wager "Climate Control"
56:30 This Month in Pot / Supreme Court Nomination
Chris and Christopher start this week with the heat, firing up criticisms from last weeks gun segments and cooling off with a history lesson on Asian internment camps and Mexican forced deportation. Gold digger Kanye is made fun of for a decent amount of time and then the dark head of science reared itself, to talk about the Appendix? It was cool, trust us. Next Pascal's wager was perverted with climate change and the funky logic will be published on the blog for all to critique. Finally, the show was closed out on a warm cloud of Marijuana legalization banter and a skeptical look at what the President will do to replace Antonin Scalia. This one has something for everyone.
Segments
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00:00 Gun Control 2 / Day of Remembrance / Kayne West Woes
27:33 Science Segment "The Appendix" / Pascal Wager "Climate Control"
56:30 This Month in Pot / Supreme Court Nomination
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Links
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/51e.asp
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/kanye-west-53-million-dollar-debt-explained
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http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/news/20071012/appendix-may-have-purpose
http://mentalfloss.com/article/72762/immunology-study-suggests-appendix-has-use-after-all
https://www.ted.com/talks/nathan_wolfe_what_s_left_to_explore?language=en
LINK FOR PASCAL
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http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons_and_Drugs#sthash.WfFLqTw3.dpbs
http://marijuanapolitics.com/wheres-the-2-billion-in-social-costs-from-legalized-marijuana-kevin/
https://medium.com/@cmclymer/scalia-was-confirmed-right-before-election-day-452447e734b1
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2016/02/15/there-have-been-lots-of-election-year-scotus-confirmations/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/02/15/an-obama-recess-appointment-double-whammy-strategy/?tid=ss_fb
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2016/02/15/who-is-obama-likely-to-nominate-to-replace-scalia/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/15/1485578/-President-Ronald-Reagan-had-strong-words-about-confirming-his-final-Supreme-Court-nominee-in-1988?detail=facebook
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@Stu Chisholm, Chris Hanna here. Stanford science below with link.
"In 2004, the National Research Council (NRC) offered a critical evaluation of the “More Guns, Less Crime” hypothesis using county-level crime data for the period 1977-2000. 15 of the 16 academic members of the NRC panel essentially concluded that the existing research was inadequate to conclude that RTC laws increased or decreased crime."
"While we have considerable sympathy with the NRC’s majority view about the difficulty of drawing conclusions from simple panel data models and re-affirm its finding that the conclusion of the dissenting panel member that RTC laws reduce murder has no statistical support, we disagree with the NRC report’s judgment on one methodological point: the NRC report states that cluster adjustments to correct for serial correlation are not needed in these panel data regressions, but our randomization tests show that without such adjustments the Type 1 error soars to 22-73 percent. "
"Our analysis of admittedly imperfect gun aggravated assaults provides suggestive evidence that RTC laws may be associated with large increases in this crime, perhaps increasing such gun assaults by almost 33 percent.
In addition to aggravated assault, the most plausible state models conducted over the entire 1979-2010 period provide evidence that RTC laws increase rape and robbery..."
"In contrast, for the period from 1999-2010 (which seeks to remove the confounding influence of the crack cocaine epidemic), the preferred state model (for those who accept the Wolfers proposition that one should not control for state trends) yields statistically significant evidence for only one crime – suggesting that RTC laws increase the rate of murder at the .05 significance level."
I'd love to read your resources. Also, the main reason we havent had a gun expert on is that the conversation always runs long and emotional and we don't want to dedicate an entire show to one topic.