I’m over the rebranded Allie’s Answers today, filling my role a as resident science guy. I’m looking at the contentious science surrounding plastic shopping bags today. Head on over and have a look and check out the rest of The Greenists as well.
One of the reasons that the science on this one is a bit [...]
Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
When I was younger I thought I knew everything. Now I’m older I know I know everything.
Wide eyed and new money with faded beauty queens
God, I hate the news media sometimes.
A story caught Dr. O’C’s eye in our local Murdoch owned fishwrapper the other day, the juicy lead of which was:
MODERN men have got it so good. According to scientific research, women are gradually becoming more attractive in an evolutionary ‘beauty race’.
Without reading either the article or the ’scientific research’, I issued [...]
Version six-point-oh of the American way
I wrote this on Monday, the day after the crime that evoked it. The post has sat in my drafts nagging at me since. I still don’t know if I want to post it but it is a few days later and I’m still angry, so what the hell. I asked Dr. O’C to read [...]
Is that nauseating stream of words really dripping from your tongue?
I don’t write much about politics these days – too stressful – but for those of you that are new around here, I’m a pretty liberal guy. In fact, I’m a committed socialist – and proud of it. One of the reasons that I can’t imagine moving back to the States in the near future [...]
Science Tuesday: The MMR vaccine and autism – truth, lies and the media
Z’s coming up on the time for his MMR vaccine. As with most of the jabs he’s gotten to date, it’s just a thing that we do, a right of passage designed to keep my child healthy. Not something I would have thought about much at all, except that I’ve had a little bird (who [...]
Science Tuesday: Lies on the Motel TV
In last week’s lively Science Tuesday comment stream, Matthew pointed out that one of the things that many scientists struggle with is communicating with the public. I think that he’s dead on target. Scientists, particularly academic scientists, don’t do themselves any favors by not learning how to talk to the average Joe or Jane. I [...]
There is such a thing as bad press
I feel like the only thing I’ve written since we arrived in Australia has been various bitching and moaning about not having an internet connection. Well, from today I’m going to endeavor to move back to the eclectic, if underwhelming, ramblings to which you’ve become accustomed here at afreeman.org
One of the luxuries in which I’ve [...]
Television Man
“When the world crashes in into my living room
Television man made me what I am
People like to put the television down
But we are just good friends
(I’m a) television man…”
-Talking Heads – “Television Man”
As soon as we found out that Dr O’C was pregnant, I began a long series of decrees and pronouncements about parenting – there will [...]
Political Quickies: Bill’s World and Why Do I Like Mike?
It must be interesting to live in Bill O’Reilly’s world. It is a world with black and white and no gray. It is a world in which the only options of who can rule America are the Bush Administration or the New York Times. It is a world in which you can make up poll [...]
The Objective Media?
Oh, come on. On my My Yahoo home page, leading the Reuters U.S. National News this morning was this headline:
Walmart.com offering online holiday deals all week
How, exactly, is this the most important U.S. news story of the day? How is this news at all? Has Reuters been purchased by Wal-Mart? If you read the story [...]
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