The Tea Party and the High-Misinformation Content Voter
I want to follow up on something from a post about the educational failure committed by our political press corps (italics original; boldface added): That so many people lack even a basic understanding...
View ArticleFOX News Is Running a Con on Elderly People
That’s really the only way to think of it. Fox ‘News’ Bill O’Reilly’s show has an average viewership age of 71, which isn’t ‘middle-aged’, but elderly. Anyway, one of the propaganda pieces Fox has been...
View ArticleFox News Confuses Potential Nuclear Meltdown with Disco Inferno
I’m starting to think that Fox News’ primary function isn’t catapulting conservative propaganda, but Will Rogers-esque comedy: One name seems out of place on the graphic [of Japan's nuclear power...
View ArticleInspired by GOP Sen. John Kyl, I Have Decided That My Tax Returns Will Not Be...
Hopefully, I’ll suffer the same lack of consequences. Regarding Planned Parenthood, Republican Senator John Kyl recently uttered this factually disabled statement: …Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) defended...
View ArticleThis Would Seem Something Educational Reformers Might Want to Do Something About
It would be nice if educational ‘reformers’ took a break from busting teachers unions to deal with the infiltration of pseudo-scientific falsehoods into the science curriculum: …the most brazen example...
View ArticleIt’s When the Pundits, Not Lobbyists, Divide Over Antibiotic Resistance,...
Recently, ScienceBlogling Jeff Toney responded to Chief Veterinarian of the National Pork Producers Council Liz Wagstrom’s argument that widespread antibiotic use in agriculture has little effect on...
View ArticleYet Another Way Big Ag Lobbyists Are Trying to Make You Sick
In light of the recent E. coli outbreak in Germany that has killed nearly forty people, one would think the U.S. would be strengthening, not weakening microbiological surveillance in agriculture. One...
View ArticleWhy Education ‘Reformers’ Are Useful Idiots
Because these are the idiots you’ve allied yourselves with: …many of these voucher advocates claim they simply want to expand school choice and improve the quality of education for all. Yet one group...
View ArticleMike Konczal Doesn’t Understand Movement Conservatives
Mike Konczal is disappointed in the behavior of one of the members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (‘FCIC’), Peter Wallison, movement conservative and member of the rightwing faith tank, the...
View ArticlePublic Data, Publishing, Priority, and Public Health
Update/clarification: I want to clarify something critical. This is not about picking on a researcher or a country. It very well could have happened in the U.S. or anywhere else. I, nor you the reader,...
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