BBC News gets into the act on discussing the myth behind the Texas/Mexico border being super violent.
Tag Archives: logic
Skepticblog – The Reasonableness of Weird Things
People believe in irrational things because they accept the evidence for it, they just typically don’t access all of the evidence or the evidence that is more accurate.
Riders on the Storm – NYTimes.com
One recent study claims that most people do not only listen/read content that they agree with.
The Certified DBA – The Daily WTF
Being an expert and being right are never one and the same.
Did Monbiot try to understand climate science? – John Graham-Cumming
I'll admit that the rest of the paper has some harder concepts (standard deviation, anyone?). But I'll wager that the real reason that people don't understand science is not because it's too hard to understand, but because they aren't motivated. via John Graham-Cumming: Did Monbiot try to understand climate science? Science can be hard but …
Warner retreats from free music streaming – BBC News
Record label does something stupid.
Calling Something Factual, Doesn’t Make It Magically Factual
Specifically, this is another time in which I call out Republicans for their lack of attention to basic logic and understanding of facts. I received an email tonight from the RNC regarding Obama, Congress and the organization ACORN. In this email the GOP makes the claim that “It seems the Obama Administration has plans to …
