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Jan 24, 2017Boy! Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our company was first to produce a cancer-free cigarette. What we could do to the competition!
↩︎ Tobacco Control
MSG, the base of umami, faced decades of false stigma and shunning on the part of Americans due to one 1968 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine about numbness-inducing "Chinese restaurant syndrome."
The "syndrome" article, written by a Chinese-American doctor, actually fingered high sodium levels in American Chinese restaurant food as the culprit, but a side mention of MSG set the rest of the media, and the country, on an anti-MSG rampage that has only just begun to subside.
Jan 24, 2017What percent of these papers replicate? I’ve been asked that so many times, but it’s not an easy question.
↩︎ The Atlantic
“I don’t think the people interviewing Kellyanne Conway know why they are doing that," NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen told Recode. "The journalistic logic of it is growing dimmer with every interview."
Staying away from the dame of "alternative facts" seems like a good idea anyways—she allegedly punched a guy at an inaugural ball.
Poynter emphasizes it's better to combat Trump's spin than to ridicule it. Journalists should push Conway and her ilk on-air to provide proof.
From Errol Morris on the certainty of Donald Rumsfeld's "unknown unknowns" quip, which was delivered at a press conference to get out of answering a question about his claims about Iraq's WMDs:
The power of dogma versus evidence. We have been transported back to 1633. To Galileo Galilei standing before the Inquisition disputing the geocentric versus the heliocentric solar system. For the Inquisition, Galileo’s calculations conflict with dogma. But for Galileo, his calculations reveal the true nature of the universe—the true nature of reality.
