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Category: Propaganda
From Media Matters: It is difficult to understand how so many errors could be crammed into one simple chart, merely by accident. It is even harder to understand how the artist could end up with a straight line, after incorporating...
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Category: Propaganda
...for canceling the showing of a creationist film, Darwin's Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record. The background is on Greg Laden's Blog, Los Angeles Venue Cancels Intelligent Design Film: You'll recall that it was recently reported that the...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:12 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
A fair amount has been written about the topic of motivated reasoning. Jonah Lehrer explains the relationship between motivated reasoning and the political process; Orac addresses the issue with regard to quantum woo. (Plus more at Mixing Memory, here)...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:59 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science in the Media
When I was at work today, I saw a headline that irritated me. I decided I would blog about it when I got home. But now the headline has been changed. I will still blog about it, though. The original...
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Category: Medicine
A minor controversy has erupted over the health care provisions that were slipped in to the economic stimulus bill without discussion. It has provisions such that.. Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system...One new bureaucracy, the...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:11 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Computer experts have been weighing in for years about design flaws in electronic voting systems. Now a computer expert goes a step farther, saying the whole system is flawed. From Linus' Blog: That's when you also notice that the whole...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:25 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Propaganda
From the vice-Presidential debate. "building our embassy, also, in Jerusalem" "That world view that says that America is a nation of exceptionalism. And we are to be that shining city on a hill, as President Reagan so beautifully said, that...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 12:40 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Propaganda
After the release of Scotty McClellan's book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception, there was a big media/blogosphere splash about the supposed failure of the media to examine critically the Administration's case for the...
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Category: Energy
Despite a chorus among citizenry and punditry to end oil company subsidies, it turns out that yet another has been foisted upon us. What is worse, it was created under the guise of a populist program: Households will spend about...
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Category: Propaganda
This is strange. A person with a Ph.D. in molecular genetics, Georgia Purdom, wrote a post in which she claims to have shown that the development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria is not an example of evolution. Antibiotic Resistance of...
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