The Carnival of Bad History has been posted at Archy. Go there and learn how history can be distorted and abused for ideological purposes or just plain ignorance. Oddly enough, though, there doesn't appear to be an article on that ultimate form of bad history, Holocaust denial. There is, however, a rather odd article on the Nazi-Yeti alliance.
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Hey, hack journalists, have I got a great concept for you! As I'm sure you're aware, editors and the public are constantly hassling you to write about this discovery or that, and it gets tiresome: you don't really know the first thing about the subject, you certainly don't know anything about the…
Orac has brought up the interesting point that debating the homeopaths at U. Conn might not be a good idea.
On a related note, in a post derriding attacks on consensus I was asked by commenters if isn't it incumbent on science to constantly respond to debate; to never let scientific questions be…
The White House in its statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day engaged in Holocaust denial. Then they doubled down on the action and via Reince Priebus on Meet the Press expressed no regret about the wording which had no mention of the Jews in their supposed "remembrance". This has been criticized…
Not so much. Because, according to a letter signed by over 400 hundred U.S. rabbis, Fox seems to have a Glenn Beck problem:
We are rabbis of diverse political views. As part of our work, we are devoted to preserving the memory of the Shoah, and to passing its lessons on to our future generations…
I'm finding these rotating carnival things interesting, but having trouble keeping track of them all. There seem to be a lot of them cropping up lately. So far there seems to be:
A biology carnival named Tangled Bank.
A physics carnival whose name I forget.
This bad history carnival thing.
Any others?
The Sceptics' Circle.