Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/20/2008 5:59:20 AM PDT by libstripper
THERE IS A SURE-FIRE WAY to make the news these days: Just issue a press release beginning with the words, "New scientific study shows," and have it assert a conclusion that the MSM fervently want to believe--especially if the resulting story would serve to debunk or refute a Bush administration policy. Slam-dunk! Your press release will become news!
You are skeptical, you say? But what other explanation is there for the decision by CBS and MSNBC to post on their websites a ridiculous story about a new scientific "finding" that global warming is causing an increase in the world's earthquakes--an item that was even linked for a time on the Drudge Report.
Now I am not a scientist, but the idea that a few alleged degrees of warming--with none apparently in the last decade--could cause an increase in earthquakes seemed pure quackery to me. So, I decided to perform Google and Yahoo searches of the "scientist" who had issued the finding, one Thomas Chalko, MSc, Ph.D.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
If you publish a non-peer reviewed article which contains two or three summation signs and an integral sign or two, you can claim any ridiculous conclusion and the science challenged MSM will eat it up.
Sic semper ignoramuses
There are many stories in the MSM that are “too good to be checked”. They must be printed as quickly as possible in order to get the word out before someone proves them to be wrong.
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