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Under the fold: Ex-Cheney aide: Bush won't hit Iran: US President George W. Bush will not attack Iran to halt its nuclear weapons program before his term ends in January, David Wurmser, a key national security adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney up until last year, has told The Jerusalem Post.…
Merry Monday. Lots of links for you. Science: Newsweek in 1995: Why the Internet will Fail. Pound for pound, bats can drink you under the table The truth matters Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics The Attack on Climate-Change Science: Why It's the O.J. Moment of the Twenty-First…
The Power of Political Misinformation: As the presidential campaign heats up, intense efforts are underway to debunk rumors and misinformation. Nearly all these efforts rest on the assumption that good information is the antidote to misinformation. But a series of new experiments show that…
Ack! Well, so much for Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's reputations for supposedly being well-informed about scientific issues. True, they didn't sink as far into the stupid as John McCain did about vaccines and autism, but what they said was bad enough. Let's put it this way: If David Kirby…