Denialism

Month: June 2009

  • The Obama Plan – Part I

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    MarkH
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    We’re starting to hear about how Obama intends to implement healthcare in this country. President Barack Obama says he’s open to requiring all Americans to buy health insurance, as long as the plan provides a “hardship waiver” to exempt poor people from having to pay. Obama opposed such an individual mandate during his campaign, but…

  • Know Privacy Report: Google Web Bugs on 88% of Websites

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    Chris
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    I’m very proud of the Know Privacy team, a group of three students who performed a broad analysis of online privacy issues for their master’s project at UC Berkeley’s School of Information. The study is featured today on the New York Times Bits blog. Several findings are notable: They found: “From our analysis, it is…

  • Oprah is a crank

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    MarkH
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    PZ brings to my attention this article in Newsweek which sums up Oprah’s views on health, and one sadly must come to the conclusion that Oprah is a crank. Based on our definition of crankery, one of the critical aspects is the incompetence of an individual in judging sources of information. How else can you…

  • What’s sad is that this actually works

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    MarkH
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    The onion, as always, nails it: Oh, No! It’s Making Well-Reasoned Arguments Backed With Facts! Run! I…I think it’s finally over. Our reactionary emotional response seems to have stopped it dead in its tracks. If I’m right, all we have to do now is smugly reiterate our half-formed thesis and–oh, no! For the love of…