[snarks_when_bored]

You're right about Sean Carroll's political inanity. I remember reading his take on the Summers fiasco. But he's a reasonably good writer about physics matters; I just mod out his political comments.

Predictably, Peter Woit thinks Motl has erred in his interpretation of the WMAP results...

[RightWingAtheist]

I find the following Heinlein quotation to be most useful to keep in mind when reading most science blogs (with the exception of Motl's The Reference Frame and Razib's Gene Expression, a depressing majority are by either liberals or far-left moonbats):

"For a long time I have from time to time felt exasperated with you that you should be so able to so completely to insulate your thinking in nonscientific fields from your excellent command of the scientific method in science fields. So far as I have observed you, you would no more think of going off half-cocked, with insufficient and unverified data, with respect to a matter of science than you would stroll down Broadway in your underwear. But when it comes to matters outside your specialties you are consistently and brilliantly stupid. You come out with some of the goddamndest flat-footed opinions with respect to matters which you haven't studied and have had no experience, basing your opinions on casual gossip, newspaper stories, unrelated individual data out of matrix, armchair extrapolation, and plain misinformation--unsuspected because you haven't attempted to verify it."