TagsTagsABC News has been running a series of pretty good “fact check” segments on the proposed health care legislation: Watch Our Fact Check Series — All in One Place - The World Newser. Here’s their piece on the Sarah Palin “death panel” smear and the distorted accusations of euthanasia. [Video] I’ve seen some ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Alaska, Facebook, Death Panel, ABC News, Fact Checking
Time for the next round in the controversy over George Will’s recent column for the Washington Post on climate change, and results reported/disputed by the University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center. Here’s the relevant section from Will’s new column: As for the anonymous scientists’ unspecified claims about the column’s ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, George Will, Carl Zimmer, Washington Post, Fact Checking
Carl Zimmer has posted an interesting response to the points that were raised repeatedly in yesterday’s comment thread on George Will’s climate change column: A Wrinkle In Ice (or Not). In his reply to me, Chapman explained that the two research centers, NSIDC and ACRC, both use the SSMI satellite ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, George Will, Carl Zimmer, Washington Post, Fact Checking
No matter where you stand on the issue of anthropogenic climate change, surely we can all agree that misrepresenting facts isn’t going to help anyone understand the subject—and calls into question the motives of those who do it: The Sea Ice Affair, Continued. Monday I bemoaned the lack of fact-checking ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, George Will, Carl Zimmer, Washington Post, Fact Checking
At Confederate Yankee: Sacrificial Lamb? Head Fact-checker Gone at TNR.
LGF, Iraq, New Republic, Military, Scott Beauchamp, Fact Checking
Newsweek exposes the evil neocon sorcerers who make up Rudy Giuliani’s foreign policy team. Thank goodness we have Newsweek and their army of highly-skilled fact-checkers, keeping America safe from neocon schemes.