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	Gregg Easterbrook - SourceWatch
		Gregg Easterbrook's birographical note states that he is "a senior editor of The New Republic, a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly, a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly, and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.
		Easterbrook's one-sided and factually deformed tract promoted his pollyannish doctrine of "ecorealism." While defensively proclaiming himself a liberal and an environmentalist, he provided the PR greenwashers with their best manifesto to date, written by an "objective" journalist.
		Gregg Easterbrook, the author of A Moment on the Earth, concludes that the acts of individuals are the root of many environmental problems.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Gregg_Easterbrook (575 words)

	I am told that Gregg Easterbrook is a very talented sports writer
		Easterbrook’s diatribes about the space shuttle have been peppered with inaccuracies and false statements, and they attempt to convey a sense of balance that is ultimately found to be superficial.
		Easterbrook’s critique of their book, “Easterbrook's critique is rife with factual errors even about the simple content of OSF, errors that could have been easily caught by thorough fact-checking.
		Easterbrook has not even tried to become familiar with the extensive modifications made to the solid rocket boosters over the time the shuttles were grounded after Challenger.
	www.hal-pc.org /~jsb/ShuttleRebuttal.html (2656 words)

	Easterbrook's blunder. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		…Gregg Easterbrook is smart enough to know that what he said is not just an accidentally offensive intersection of language and stereotype he couldn't have foreseen (he said it was merely a bad choice of words).
		Gregg Easterbrook, surely a smarter man than me, does not lack the faculties to do the former, and has also not bothered to do the latter.
		Easterbrook's argument, with regard to their Judaic beliefs, was baseless because he never bothers to establish them as observant practitioners of Judaism.
	slate.msn.com /id/2090091 (2271 words)

	Our Stolen Future: Gregg Easterbrook misfires again
		Easterbrook began by observing that Our Stolen Future "is well-written and well researched." Yet after observing the many errors and distortions in his critique, it was difficult to believe he read the book thoroughly and carefully.
		Easterbrook (and industry) point to the lack of scientific certainty emerging from these weak experiments as proof of chemical safety, when instead it is an acknowledgement of scientific ignorance.
		Easterbrook writes (of a controversial study by John McLachlan's lab on synergistic interactions among contaminants): "McLachlan studied the effects of chemicals not on mice or cell cultures but on yeast colonies.
	www.ourstolenfuture.org /Commentary/Opinion/1999easterbrook.htm (1500 words)

	ESPN.com: SPORTSNATION - Chat-11508(Insider)
		Easterbrook is an award-winning writer, author and columnist best known for "TMQ" - a regular discourse examining football via everything from physics to Japanese haiku to cheerleaders.
		Easterbrook's first column previews the 2006 NFL draft, and "TMQ" will appear weekly throughout the 2006 football season.
		Gregg Easterbrook: If you look at the draft value chart mentioned in today's column, the #2 overall choice, owned by New Orleans, is worth about 15 third-round selections.
	proxy.espn.go.com /chat/chatESPN?event_id=11508 (280 words)

	Dynamist.com: Review of The Progress Paradox by Gregg Easterbrook, reviewed by Virginia Postrel
		Gregg Easterbrook, a senior editor at The New Republic, starts with lots of evidence to demonstrate today's material abundance.
		Easterbrook is understandably sympathetic to the hardships faced by poor people amid plenty.
		Easterbrook might feel better, but at least some minimum-wage workers would lose their jobs - an effect he does not even bother to address.
	www.dynamist.com /articles-speeches/opeds/easterbrook.html (761 words)

	Jonathan H. Adler on SUVs & Gregg Easterbrook on National Review Online
		Easterbrook finds sufficient passenger and cargo space in other vehicles more to his liking, and too few SUV owners (in his opinion) ever take their vehicles off-road.
		Easterbrook cavalierly asserts "it is a common fallacy that the occupants inside SUVs are safer than they would be in ordinary cars." Yet it is Easterbrook's argument that is filled with fallacies.
		Easterbrook is correct to note the extent to which the vagaries of federal regulations have encouraged the development of SUVs and other passenger vehicles produced as light-truck models.
	www.nationalreview.com /adler/adler012003.asp (1558 words)

	JEWSWEEK - Gregg Easterbrook's not an anti-Semite... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Easterbrook is a man of significant religious experience and education, as expert in religious analysis as he is widely acknowledged to be of political issues and science issues; the man is a polymath capable of astute analysis, often awing his co-workers in the process.
		From Jonathan Alter's pretty much arguing that Easterbrook types too fast, to Jeff Jarvis' application of the term "brain fart," the idea circulating is that what he said wasn't all that important in the context of his larger work.
		Going back to the way Easterbrook's post first became a big deal on the blogosphere, we have Yourish's first comments, about which Reynolds wrote, "Meryl Yourish is unhappy that Gregg Easterbrook is lecturing Jewish movie executives about greed." That pretty much got the firestorm going, especially once Roger Simon jumped on board.
	www.jewsweek.com /bin/en.jsp?enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article^l804&enZone=Stories&enVersion=0& (2409 words)

	Gregg Easterbrook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gregg Easterbrook is an American writer who is a senior editor of The New Republic.
		Easterbrook was born in 1953 and grew up in Buffalo, New York.
		Easterbrook continued to blog for them, and still writes articles on environmentalism (especially the damage caused by sport utility vehicles), religion and other subjects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gregg_Easterbrook (1064 words)

	Deltoid: Gregg Easterbrook is a Waste of Space
		The Editors on Gregg Easterbrook: I was going to do a whole thing about how disingenuous Gregg Easterbrook has been about global warming, but I see that Media Matters has already done a very thorough job.
		The thing is, Easterbrook was wrong about global warming, wrong and foolish, as he has been wrong and foolish about countless scientific questions over the years.
		Easterbrook's earlier claim to fame was authoring the monumentally erroneous anti-environmental book, "A Moment on the Earth" (1995), which challenges Bjorn Lomborg's equally vacuous tome in terms of the nonsense factor.
	scienceblogs.com /deltoid/2006/05/gregg_easterbrook_is_a_waste_o.php (1307 words)

	Media Matters - Easterbrook baselessly accused Gore film of lacking "factual precision," ignored his own ...
		Easterbrook criticized Gore's claims that the melting of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica could lead to substantial increases in sea levels, that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing, and that Bush administration officials have attempted to tamper with official reports on the threat posed by climate change.
		Moreover, while Easterbrook conceded in both his Slate.com article and in a New York Times op-ed published the same day that he was once skeptical of global warming, he did not disclose that during these many previous years as an ardent global warming skeptic, he repeatedly distorted scientific research to meet his aims.
		Specifically, Easterbrook took issue with Gore's assertion that "the atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of carbon dioxide." Easterbrook wrote, "Thickness is not the issue," and proceeded to explain how the molecular makeup of CO traps heat, creating the so-called greenhouse effect.
	mediamatters.org /items/200605260014 (3667 words)

	Amazon.com: The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse: Books: Gregg Easterbrook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Easterbrook sees a widespread case of cognitive dissonance in the West: according to Easterbrook, though the typical American's real income has doubled in the past 50 years, the percentage of Americans who describe themselves as "happy" remains where it was half a century ago (oddly, Easterbrook doesn't tell us what that percentage is).
		Easterbrook insists to not do so is immoral, but average Americans who can not get more than a form letter in response from their senators are left with no suggestions as to how they can enact these changes.
		Easterbrook is most successful when taking a deep look at our inability to enjoy what we've worked so hard for but also his arguments for examining the pessisism and darkness that we've allowed to cloud our lives.
	www.amazon.com /Progress-Paradox-Better-People-Worse/dp/0679463038 (3181 words)

	The Poor Man Institute » Raise your hand if your opinion on global warming is worth more than shit. Whoa, whoa, ...
		Easterbrook cilps 5 words from page 2 of this report as evidence that the NAS was cautioning against making any policy decisions.
		Easterbrook does not understand global warming, but he speaks from the pulpit of the converted and thus, as the reformed drunk, has credibility (to some).
		For the record, Gregg Easterbrook’s brother is Frank Easterbrook, Dick Posner’s colleague in the “law and economics” school of legal interpretation (which is, at bottom, just another way to justify rulings favoring corporations and other GOP donors).
	www.thepoorman.net /2006/05/28/raise-your-hand-if-your-opinion-on-global-warming-is-worth-more-than-shit-not-so-fast-mr-easterbrook (3557 words)

	Amazon.de: The Progress Paradox: English Books: Gregg Easterbrook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The sooner we accept how good we have it, the better off the whole world will be, he says, because if we would just realise that we have this wealth, we could be using it to alleviate hunger, provide healthcare for the millions who lack it, and otherwise address the ills that actually do exist.
		One might look a bit askance at some of Easterbrook's sunny perspectives on our societal fortunes--he celebrates rampant consumerism while skating past the rampant consumer debt that lies beneath it, for instance--but it's hard to deny that the pessimistic viewpoint is much more widely stated than that of optimists.
		Easterbrook presents a few psychological rationales, including "choice anxiety," where the vastness of society's options is a burden, and "abundance denial," where people somehow manage to convince themselves that they are deprived of material comforts.
	www.amazon.de /Progress-Paradox-Gregg-Easterbrook/dp/0679463038 (1663 words)

	NewsLink, Winter 2004, BOOK REVIEW, The Progress Paradox by Gregg Easterbrook reviewed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gregg Easterbrook has made it his job to chronicle this glorious march and along the way he’s found the gumption to disregard the endless pixel-driven, high-decibel hobgoblins of the nightly news.
		Easterbrook is clearly prepared to meet the egalitarian challenge.
		Easterbrook does well to quote Adam Smith to whom he turns for a lesson on gratitude.
	www.beaconhill.org /NewsLink/NLV82/v8n2BookEasterbrook.html (1312 words)

	ESPN Search: gregg easterbrook
		Gregg Easterbrook kicks off a new season with his annual list of offseason highlights and lowlights -- and takes several teams to task for not drafting Matt Leinart.
		Before he returns to his offseason bunker, Gregg Easterbrook reminds us that when it comes to the NFL draft no one is as smart as they think they are.
		Gregg Easterbrook's Tuesday Morning Quarterback returns, with the mock draft to end all mock drafts and a Mr.
	sports.espn.go.com /keyword/search?searchString=gregg_easterbrook&rT=sports (978 words)

	Gregg Easterbrook and U.S. Forests
		For example, while Easterbrook promotes the virtues of private enterprise and seems to be arguing against an important role for government regulation - he also acknowledges that it has played an important role in getting private companies to behaving in more environmentally responsible ways.
		Nor does Easterbrook always pass Logic 100: in fact, in several places in his chapter on forests, he can be severly criticized from a critical thinking perspective.
		This shift means that Easterbrook is guilty of straw man: he attempts to replace the environmentalists' original position - the importance of protecting biodiversity in old-growth forests - with a much weaker version of that position - a merely human preference for spotted owls over deer.
	www.drury.edu /ess/forests1.html (1965 words)

	OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today
		Easterbrook's remarks reflect either absolute ignorance or total bigotry." Foxman's beef against Easterbrook may be personal too; on Oct.
		Easterbrook's essay was an expression not of anti-Semitism but of a lesser, though still insidious, form of prejudice.
		Ideologically, Easterbrook's earnest criticism of Jewish studio executives is of a piece with Maureen Dowd's racist rant against Clarence Thomas.
	www.opinionjournal.com /best/?id=110004194 (3566 words)

	Happy Warrior - Mahathir Mohamad's and Gregg Easterbrook's antisemitism National Review - Find Articles
		Easterbrook writes for The New Republic and had to come up with something that hadn't yet been said about Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.
		Easterbrook's line is that, while "there are plenty of Christian and other Hollywood executives who worship money above all else," that doesn't "make it right for Jewish executives to worship money above all else." "Recent European history" imposes a special obligation on Jewish executives.
		Poor old Easterbrook was criticizing Jews for not behaving Jewish enough (as he sees it) and wound up getting fired from his other gig at ESPN.com for the "perception" (weasel word) of anti-Semitism.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_21_55/ai_109186924 (893 words)

	Amazon.com: A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism: Books: Gregg Easterbrook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Easterbrook is one of the recognized experts - and founding thinkers - on environmental optimism.
		Easterbrook's view is more closely aligned with the average U.S. working citizen..."let's act responsibly in our daily lives, just stop blaming me/us for the end-of-the-world crisis now rampant in the press".
		Easterbrook may make a few errors and his writing style may not suit all, but I found this book to be enlightening and an excellent essay on the big picture in environmentalism today.
	www.amazon.com /Moment-Earth-Coming-Environmental-Optimism/dp/0140154515 (1537 words)

	danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: Gregg Easterbrook, anti-semitism, and ESPN
		As a big fan of Easterbrook's writings in general, and his Tuesday Morning Quarterback column for ESPN in particular, I've never come across anything else in his voluminous set of writings that even hinted at anti-Semitism.
		Easterbrook advances a twisted concept of freedom of speech to try to make the case that calls for the firing of Jensen and other left-wing academics are just and legitimate expressions of free speech.
		Easterbrook writes that "Scream was the favorite movie of the Columbine killers." This is an assertion that has, as far as I can tell, NEVER been made before.
	www.danieldrezner.com /archives/000827.html (4364 words)

	Gregg Easterbrook, The Progress Paradox: New Political Discourse?
		Easterbrook is a visiting fellow at the blue-chip Brookings Institution, not to mention senior editor at the New Republic, contributing editor at the Atlantic Monthly, and contributing editor at the Washington Monthly.
		First Easterbrook establishes that most Americans, the vast majority of us in fact, are “haves” so far as material goods are concerned -- and that life is getting better for the vast majority of us.
		Easterbrook also notes that the founding fathers “did not laud ‘the pursuit of happiness’ because they considered this self-indulgence.
	www.radicalmiddle.com /x_easterbrook.htm (1831 words)

	Ezra Klein: Gregg Easterbrook is a Renewable Resource
		easterbrook stands on rod serling's theory of a "dimension of sight and sound" he called "the twilight zone"...
		It seems easy to believe for many but not logical to consider that one of those dimensions may be magical, that there is not one argument leading to its prediction or discussion by physics or cosmology, and the entire argument for its existence is that a lot of people believe in it.
		When it comes to commentary on ANY scientific issue, Gregg Easterbrook will always be hopefully clasping at the chance that he would someday reach the level of credibility of Monty Python's Mrs.
	ezraklein.typepad.com /blog/2006/09/gregg_easterbro.html (3564 words)

	Instapundit.com - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		ROGER SIMON has a disturbing report: He spoke with Gregg Easterbrook on the phone and Easterbrook has been fired from ESPN.
		They think we can't take care of ourselves, that we can't make our own judgments about Easterbrook and what he said and how he apologized; they are condescending to us when they think they are protecting us from offense.
		To be fair, I think that Easterbrook is in no small way the author of his own misfortunes, but I think that the ESPN firing is an overreaction, and that Michael Eisner should take it like a man.
	www.instapundit.com /archives/012081.php (1234 words)

	Correcting myths from Gregg Easterbrook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Carl Zimmer finds fault with the critics, including Gregg Easterbrook, of a recent study published in Nature that showed that global warming will lead to massive species extinction.
		Gregg Easterbrook has corrected one error, but persists in another.
		The text on these pages may be freely copied, distributed and posted as long as my name, this statement and the URL (http://info-pollution.com/easter.htm) are included.
	info-pollution.com /easter.htm (186 words)

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