Gregg Easterbrook has been everywhere lately! Dissin’ on the space shuttle (in Time), dissin’ on hydrogen-powered cars (in The New Republic), dissin’ on chemical weapons in The New York Times. For 20 years, he’s had a pretty steady beat in the world of journalism: the don’t-trust-scientific-hyperbole, researchers-screw-up-a-lot beat. Depending where your faith in machinery lies, he’s either comforting or frightening.