Review: The Skeptical Environmentalist–Measuring the Real State of the World

Gives New Meaning to Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics January 22, 2002 Bjorn Lomborg UPDATED 6 Oct 09 to upgrade to five stars and add links that comprise an apology of sorts. The more I read the less I know, and the more I appreciate the absolute essentiality of getting all points of view face …

2001 Heibel (US) Intelligence Training and the Difference Between Information and Intelligence

PLATINUM Professor Robert Heibel Professor Robert Heibel, a veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is unique for having established both an undergraduate and a graduate program in intelligence and research analysis.  His pioneering efforts have provided varied intelligence communities with very high-quality individuals, properly trained, at a time when their respective countries need them …

2001 Rotheray (UK) New Risks of Crisis: Fresh Perspectives from Open Source

Brian Rotheray is one of the “Dissident Majority” at BBC who have objected, among other things, to terrible management and a rather loose grasp of the truth, including teams that are so biased against any sembalnce of Western intervention as to be considered propaganda elements of the indigenous insurgent elements. To the left, one of …

2001 Treverton (US) Reshaping National Intelligence in an Age of Information

Dr. Greg Treverton has been a mainstay “in-house” thinker from Harvard and the Council on Foreign Relations to many years at RAND and a brief stint as Vice Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), in which capacity he heard from us on the need for all analysts to be able to do citation analysis …