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Dan Yurman's Blog covers political and economic news on nuclear energy and nonproliferation issues.

Baloney detection for nuclear new builds

You can't tell the players without a scorecard In 2001 Michael Shermer, a columnist for Scientific American, introduced the concept of baloney detection , which is the fine art of detecting fraud in the scientific and engineering realms. Schermer asks five questions which are appropriate for assessing the legitimacy of a claim. In the case of nuclear energy, baloney detection is unusually appropriate Read More...

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