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The American War on Rationality
Topic Categories: Cultural Observation
Posted on: March 3, 2007 6:05 PM, by "GrrlScientist"
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Examine the 'flat Earth' in the newspaper carefully. Only (most) of Africa and Arabia are on top.
Where is N. America? Europe? the rest of Asia? S. America? Austrailia? Antarctica?
Props to Tom for using the Apollo 17 shot which does not display those places.
Posted by: llewelly | March 3, 2007 6:36 PM
Posted by: Baratos | March 3, 2007 11:23 PM
Even when reporters do know the difference, the conventions of he-said-she-said journalism get in the way of conveying that knowledge to readers. I once joked that if President Bush said that the Earth was flat, the headlines of news articles would read, "Opinions Differ on Shape of the Earth." The headlines on many articles about the intelligent design controversy come pretty close.
Paul Krugman, New York Times, 5 August 2005 and a bunch of other times
Posted by: John McKay | March 4, 2007 12:46 AM
My favorite irrational belief is that everything will be all right if you just get right with god. Hoo-hah.
Posted by: biosparite | March 4, 2007 3:39 PM
That is rolled gold my friend.
Posted by: Mikey | March 6, 2007 7:22 AM