Media
Ultra-In mag New Yorker: “For our nation and our species, the future depends” on Francis Collins’s success…
Has Bill Nye sold out to… Coca Cola?
To get change, create or exploit a crisis . . .
to control the change, set the agenda and control thought to a thesis, an antithesis and your desired synthesis. So, we see, in a cartoon: Where, let us recall the change challenge: . . . thus the fallacy of the false dilemma pushing a simplistic dichotomy of choices: . . . and the Overton Window context, where one has to open up space to pull policy, likely incrementally — thus we see a slippery slope ratchet: so, we see how a slippery slope slide into lawless oligarchy can be created: Are we facing a march of the Lemmings? Food for thought as we contemplate technoplutocracy. END
At Mind Matters News: Could decentralization fix Twitter’s censorship problems? Or Wikipedia’s?
Trust the Science! Instructive testimony from media efforts to squelch debate about the COVID panic
At last someone is asking: Why are science reporters so credulous?
Yes, law schools have changed. Now here’s a key way media have changed
Has anyone else noticed the blatant political flavor of many sciencey mags these days?
A media bias takedown by the Frontline Doctors
If you needed a case study on loaded language driven slanted reporting, here is a case study that deserves to be headlined: For context, see the de-spin chart: Remember, this has been with lives on the line. END