Sizing up the new FiveThirtyEight

Nate Silver's new web site has launched, but the reviews so far have been decidedly mixed. At the Knight Science Journalism Tracker, Paul Raeburn gives an "abysmal" rating to one of the site's initial science stories. Meanwhile, one of Silver's science reporters, University of Colorado Professor Roger Pielke Jr., is accused by Kiley Kroh of "a long history of data distortion and confrontations with climate scientists."

March 20, 2014

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