If you’re the guv’mint, and you want a journalist’s notes, emails, phone records, and such, and you don’t want to get a subpoena ’cause the journalist would be notified, no problemo. Just […]
How to stop journalists: Say they might be criminals
Skip Bayless on Derek Jeter: A gasbag's 'View from Nowhere' shouldn't be the basis for a news story
by Brian Moritz Skip Bayless, one of ESPN’s resident gasbags, shot his mouth off about Derek Jeter earlier this week. As quoted in an Associated Press story: You would have to have […]
When is an epidemic really an epidemic? Or not? Just let the media tell you
My search for evidence to support the claim began with this tweet sent 9 minutes after midnight: CBS Radio News @CBSRadioNews US appears headed for its worst year for whooping cough in […]
Birth of a climate change meme: Inadequate reporting followed by inept blogging
Today I witnessed (at least for me) the birth of a meme — an idea spread through a culture. It’s a common word in Internet parlance: An “Internet meme” is often considered […]
The Tech Curmudgeon – hell no, you don't get my Facebook password, Mr. Interviewer
The Tech Curmudgeon says, “if a prospective employer asks for your Facebook password, you say ‘NO!'” Feel free to use some “colorful metaphors” in conjunction, too.
Mann's critics not appeased by NSF investigation, extend unfounded "whitewash" accusations to NSF itself
The OIG confirmed Penn State’s result that Michael Mann was not guilty of research misconduct. So where are all Mann’s critics admitting they were wrong about him?
Nota Bene #101: Your Pal, Mike S.
“The guys who are shooting films now are technically brilliant, but there’s no content in their films. I marvel at what I see and wish I could have done a shot like […]
Nota Bene #98: A More Glorious Dawn Awaits
“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled […]
The Weekly Carboholic: independent statisticians reject recent global cooling claims in blind analysis
Independent statisticians reject recent global cooling claims in blind analysis Melting glaciers releasing pollutants from decades ago IEA: climate treaty necessary to keep energy prices low Floating cities as a response to […]
Domestic terrorism: the mainstream media must stop spreading the Lone Wolf Flu
There’s a wicked little meme is going around and it seems to have infected a lot of people we’d have hoped were immune. Unfortunately this mental and linguistic virus is particularly virulent, […]
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