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Crap Detection

Stumbleupon Review of : http://members.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/detector.html Shermer's Boundary Detection Kit How reliable is the source of the claim? Has the source often made similar claims? Have the claims been verified by another source? How does this fit with what we know … Continue reading

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Consortiumnews.com

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/092007a.html Tellin’ it like it is. How the dogs of war ate our meta-narratives. Excerpts: This has been the right’s craftiest accomplishment: inducing “reasonable” liberals and “sensible” centrists to enable their crimes, from stolen elections to … Continue reading

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fiskers.group.stumbleupon.com

Stumbleupon Review of : http://fiskers.group.stumbleupon.com/ From wikipedia: —————————————————————- The term Fisking, or to Fisk, is blogosphere slang describing detailed point-by-point criticism that highlights errors, disputes the analysis of presented facts, or highlights other problems in a statement, article, or essay. … Continue reading

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JunkScience.com — The Real Inconvenient Truth: Greenhouse, global warming

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/ Half-baked sci-quackery for woolly-minded Randroids to lap up. This is astroturfing, pure and simple. Written by a corporate spin-doctor who has worked in the past for such worthies as Phillip Morris and Monsanto. C.f.

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