I missed whatever controversy started the current round of 538 commentary. All I know is that they put out a statistical march madness bracket and heard someth

I missed whatever controversy started the current round of 538 commentary. All I know is that they put out a statistical march madness bracket and heard something about their global warming piece not worth the time figuring out what the drama was about. So I'm behind the times. Why are most of the comments on this article pulling out all well-worn Hacker News tropes for dismissing the article and/or making the field slippery enough that I can ignore what Krugman says? As far as I know, Krugman and Silver are both regarded as real smart dudes in their respective fields (both with actual political hacks ready to paint them as hacks), and nobody is expected to bat 1.000 so this looks like a "hey kid new to these waters, be careful there be dragons." So is the drama over a politically sensitive topic? I'm assuming. Is the narrative about the issue coming out of 538 more pleasing to the ears of entrepreneurial self-styled "hackers" than the one from Krugman? I bet so! Now that I've posted this, I'll go catch up on the drama to find out just how wrong I am.