This blog post starts with a quote from Thomas Aquinas, “Beware the man of one book” and updates it to arguments relying on peer-reviewed studies. He spends a fair amount of time on the studies that prove/disprove the economic argument that a rise in the minimum wage leads to a rise in unemployment. There are plenty of individual studies that are contradictory on this question. There are even conflicting systematic overviews.
The author also has a related post, The control group is out of control.
Scott Alexander. Beware the man of one study. Slate Star Codex blog, 2014-12-12. Available in html format.
An earlier version of this page was published on new.pmean.com.