Sunday Sermon: We Must Take Loughner’s Political Ideas Seriously
But not for the reason you’re probably thinking. Loughner’s ideas are a ludicrous hodge-podge of conspiracy theory, libertarianism, and anti-government sentiment, but what’s striking about them is how...
View ArticleFox News: Worried About the ‘War on Christmas’, but Their Own War on Jews?
Not so much. Because, according to a letter signed by over 400 hundred U.S. rabbis, Fox seems to have a Glenn Beck problem: We are rabbis of diverse political views. As part of our work, we are devoted...
View ArticleOur Real (Adult) Educational Crisis: The Ongoing Failure of Our Political...
A study showing that many people who receive assistance from government programs don’t believe they have done so has been making the rounds once again (you heard it here first! Months ago!). My...
View ArticleThe Tea Party and the High-Misinformation Content Voter
I want to follow up on something from a post about the educational failure committed by our political press corps (italics original; boldface added): That so many people lack even a basic understanding...
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The Disappearance of the Unemployment Crisis: A Tale of Three Word Clouds
Recently, I argued that the widespread ignorance of the most basic elements of U.S. politics should be viewed as an educational failure–an adult educational failure–committed by the political press...
View ArticleFOX News Is Running a Con on Elderly People
That’s really the only way to think of it. Fox ‘News’ Bill O’Reilly’s show has an average viewership age of 71, which isn’t ‘middle-aged’, but elderly. Anyway, one of the propaganda pieces Fox has been...
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Value-Added Teacher Testing Is Very Precise: You Did Poorly With a Confidence...
By way of Observational Epidemiology, we find an interesting NY Times article by Michael Winerip describing a seventh grade teacher’s experience with value added testing in New York City. I’ll get to...
View ArticleWe’re Missing the Point About the O’Keefe-NPR Non-Scandal
If you haven’t heard, rightwing slime mongerer James O’Keefe struck again and managed to give National Public Radio (NPR) a black eye, although to a considerable extent, this was a self-inflicted...
View ArticleInspired by GOP Sen. John Kyl, I Have Decided That My Tax Returns Will Not Be...
Hopefully, I’ll suffer the same lack of consequences. Regarding Planned Parenthood, Republican Senator John Kyl recently uttered this factually disabled statement: …Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) defended...
View ArticleMore Science Journalism Is Critical, If Potentially Uncomfortable
This post might have to get filed under “careful what you wish for”, but Martin Robbins’ latest column about the cozy relationship between science journalists and the scientists they cover seems to...
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