Category: Junk Science / Fraud / Malpractice

Why I Turned Away From Conservative News

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As the title says, I don’t trust Conservative news outlets much. There is the obvious cases where the reporting is just plain wrong. Last week, Conservative website Newsbusters chided the “national media” for either not covering the story a of former Acting Director of Cyber Security Health and Human Services who got busted and now […]

More WND Fun… They Never Fail To Amaze.

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They say the Devil is in the details, but he’s often in the details that get left out. An article by one “news” organization that specializes in leaving out details is making the rounds on facebook today… It’s none other than World Net Daily, an information outlet that I’ve had fun debunking in the past […]

Why The Conservative Movement Is Becoming Irrelevant – Part 2

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Andrew Sullivan has a blog post titled “The GOP’s Talking Points On Poverty“. In it, he notes: Philip Rucker and Robert Costa report that ”there is deep disagreement among Republican leaders and strategists over whether to embrace an economic-mobility agenda in the 2014 midterm campaigns.” But some prominent Republicans are beginning to address the issue: […]

InfoWars Is CRAP – Again… Worse For Your Brain Than Fukushima Radiation!

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A Berkeley nuclear engineering professor has dismissed a viral video which appears to show unusually high radiation readings on a beach in San Francisco, asserting it has no link to the ongoing Fukushima crisis in Japan. The highly trustworthy folks at InfoWar are upset at Berkley Professor Edward Morse because he dismissed the one YouTube […]

Why The Conservative Movement Is Becoming Irrelevant. (Meme watch – us poor folk should be grateful Mitt Romney has eleven houses or whatever)

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Do you want to know why the Conservative Republican Party is marching toward irrelevance? This statement from a January 4th article captures a snap-shot of their state of mind: “The truth is that income inequality is of minimal importance in a nation like America, where so many people already move between classes, where the poor […]

InfoWar And WND Are Crap… Worse Than Radiation! It’s Mind Poison!!! Stop Reading Them!!!!

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OH NO! THE GOV’MENT JUST ORDERED 14 MILLION DOSES OF POTASSIUM IODINE!!!! THAT MEANS THEY KNOW WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE BECAUSE OF FUKUSHIMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The headlines featured by the two “news” outlets don’t say that explicitly in their headlines, but that’s the story. Here is the skinny. The order listed on the link that InfoWars […]

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Cognitive Dissonance…. The Tea Party “Oops” Edition… Part 2

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Remember how a slew of Conservative  / Tea Party talking head went into a tizzy last month saying that President Obama had, with a the stroke of a pen, exempted Congress from Obamacare? Here’s a remind if this passed you by. Barack Obama hasn’t become known for his bold style of leadership. Even the lapdog […]

Climate Science Writer…. Smack Down!!!!

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Over at Juduth Curry’s excellent climate blog Climate Etc, there is an interesting conversation going on concerning a rebuttal by The Economist against an article from The New Republic which was a rebuttal against a previous article from the Economist! Got that? Yeah, it gets complicated after a while. But it’s fun to watch as […]

Bill Nye….. The Non-Science Guy.

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It’s one thing when a scientific dunce in the form of California’s Senator Barbara “Ma’am” Boxer says the F-5 that hit Moore Oklahoma is caused by global warming. You kind of expect such unprovable nonsense from her. But when a guy who touts himself as “The Science Guy” says the same thing… Well, I can’t […]

Fraud Alert!

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I just got this in my email. It’s complete with Verizon Wireless graphics: Your current bill for your account is now available online in My Verizon Total Balance Due: $1706.74 Keep in mind that payments and/or adjustments made to your account after your bill was generated will not be reflected in the amount shown above. […]