Smart guys

You can agree or disagree with Freeman Dyson's views on climate change ("It could be beneficial!"). You can criticize the New York Times Mag story about him for not presenting much in the way of arguments refuting his views, merely noting that he is considered "a crank" by the climate change "experts" Dyson so derides. But to criticize the writer -- or the Times editor's choice of the writer, I'm not sure which -- as Media Matters does, because the subject of his four books have mostly been about baseball, is absurd. Baseball and physics have always had a mutual admiration. And the story is more a profile of a brilliant, aging man who's always had some pretty loopy ideas, than about the science of climate change. Hia wife Imme, after all, gets the last word. And besides, one of writer Nicholas Dawidoff's books was about Moe Berg.