tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post275437137345556866..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: Junk News Loves Junk ScienceMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-74999276912470648752009-02-15T11:02:00.000-06:002009-02-15T11:02:00.000-06:00And then there was that colloquy on "love" from Li...And then there was that colloquy on "love" from Little Lord Lodenpantz.<BR/><BR/>The only reason I didn't throw the whole tuner out the window was that i'da hadda replace the window and its cold...<BR/><BR/>Gawd-FUUKING-damn! Once I heard it was he, I just went directly to the CD player...Woody (Tokin Librul/Rogue Scholar/ Helluvafella!)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09205896988142798901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-89053350048920427172009-02-14T13:33:00.000-06:002009-02-14T13:33:00.000-06:00This is the perfect example of how NPR has jettiso...This is the perfect example of how NPR has jettisoned reality in favor of balance -- on EVERY topic, including science.<BR/><BR/>With science, there are NOT two equal sides to every issue. In fact, in most cases, there is simply one side -- that of the scientific consensus.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, under former NPR president Kevin Klose, NPR was reduced largely to a "balance beam". Balance became the be all and end all of "news". The operating principle seems to be that as long as one presents two sides of every issue, one is doing one's duty as an "unbiased" journalist. Truth and reality do not even enter into the equation.<BR/><BR/>Nothing could be further from the truth. Klose seems to have absolutely NO clue what real journalism is about.<BR/><BR/>The man cut his teeth on propaganda (in charge of VOA and other such garbage ), which pretty much says it all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-48228384011393533912009-02-14T13:16:00.000-06:002009-02-14T13:16:00.000-06:00Following your link I listened to the segment. Ab...Following your link I listened to the segment. Abramson actually compared his creationist apologist to Darwin! A man who sits in a windowless room is put up as a modern-day version of one who traveled to all sorts of exotic places observing, collecting, characterizing, and comparing everything he saw, with the intent of trying to understand things. And he's demeaned to the level of some puny bureaucrat who only wants to come up with some cosmic 'gotcha!' so he can rest assured and smug in his english mistranslation of ancient hebrew, greek, and latin texts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-28454364777475296112009-02-14T00:44:00.000-06:002009-02-14T00:44:00.000-06:00Here we go again...emperical science against 2 &am...Here we go again...emperical science against 2 & 3000 year old fairy tales.Hubertghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05409027211218872203noreply@blogger.com