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  • When Media Bias Is Worse Than It Appears

    01/27/2022 5:07:01 AM PST · by Kaslin · 14 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | January 27, 2022 | Brian McNicoll
    We’ve long been familiar with media bias, where the opinions of those who own or produce news make their way into the stories they tell and even the choices of which stories are worth telling. But in recent years, there’s been a new kind of journalism that deserves more scrutiny – when publications produce stories for the express purpose of achieving certain results. In the case of Donald Trump, it was used to start the Russia collusion debacle and attempt to ruin him politically. But the tactic has more commercial uses as well. In Washington, a publication known as the...
  • Secondhand Smoke, Lung Cancer, and the Global Warming Debate

    12/19/2010 1:42:54 AM PST · by Scanian · 21 replies · 2+ views
    The American Thinker ^ | December 19, 2010 | S. Fred Singer
    In 1993, the EPA published a report claiming that secondhand smoke (SHS -- also sometimes known as environmental tobacco smoke or ETS) causes three thousand deaths from lung cancer every year. Anyone doubting this result has been subject to attack and depicted as a toady of the tobacco lobby. The attacks have been led by a smear blog called DeSmogBlog, financed by the Canadian PR firm of James Hoggan, and have been taken up with great enthusiasm by self-styled "science historian" Professor Naomi Oreskes. The tobacco smoking issue has also become a favorite tool for discrediting climate skeptics. A prime...