Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


1 posted on 02/10/2012 9:37:46 AM PST by Maceman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021 next last
To: Maceman

Great work!!!


2 posted on 02/10/2012 9:39:49 AM PST by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman
"Ivor E. Tower?"

And Andrew fell for it?

3 posted on 02/10/2012 9:40:09 AM PST by Joe the Pimpernel (Too many lawmakers, too many laws, too many lawyers.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman

Good work!


4 posted on 02/10/2012 9:41:34 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman

Nice Job. Hoax’s like this just show the depths hoaxers(leftist Cs er’s) will go to, to attack and vilify Conservatives.


5 posted on 02/10/2012 9:44:45 AM PST by Venturer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman

Perhaps, the physicians and other professionals should form a network of guardians against lay conservatives making fools of themselves responding to issues they don’t comprehend? Or, maybe we’d only make things worse, because at this point Camp Treblinka in Brooklyn NY wouldn’t surprise me?


8 posted on 02/10/2012 9:45:34 AM PST by STD (It Doesn't Take a Real Political Panjandrum to Cut Taxes & Cut Spending Stupid!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman

You linked to the video. Could you link to Andrew’s article? I’d like to read it.


9 posted on 02/10/2012 9:45:40 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman

That study might be fake, but this isn’t:

http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Mind-Psychological-Political-Madness/dp/097795630X/

Just sayin’


10 posted on 02/10/2012 9:46:08 AM PST by newheart (What this country needs is a good dose of bran. Attack Muffins Unite!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman

At the risk of belaboring the obvious, you did pass your findings on to Breitbart, didn’t you?


12 posted on 02/10/2012 9:49:39 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman

I kind of wondered about that one. It sounded pretty much like The Onion, the way it was written. I wouldn’t put it past the APA to publish something like that, to fill up the space left when they decided that gayness was not a mental disorder. But they’d do it a bit less comically than that.

Anyway, I didn’t post a comment on it, I don’t think.


13 posted on 02/10/2012 9:51:00 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman

The misfortune of quoting obscure, expensive journals and being too cheap to subscribe. Now they are getting the free press and “authority” they sought in the first place. The trouble with being conservative is that logic can actually influence your opinion.

By CBS logic, the hoax goes to prove the bias of the other side. The mere fact that it was a hoax by left wing conspirators makes it true that anybody living on government grants has a bias toward the government. Where’s the witch hunt for the hoaxers? Problem Solved.


14 posted on 02/10/2012 9:51:34 AM PST by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman; AZConservative

AZ Conservative has competition.


17 posted on 02/10/2012 10:05:26 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman

This might be a parody of a real study that was posted in Science Daily last November, from the American Psychological Association. (Originally published in the APA’s Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111121142446.htm

Headlined by ‘Reason’ as “New Study: People Outsource Their Ignorance to Government”.

“The less people know about important complex issues such as the economy, energy consumption and the environment, the more they want to avoid becoming well-informed, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.”


18 posted on 02/10/2012 10:07:21 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman

In related news...

Shyness, grieving soon to be classified as mental illness

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/02/09/shyness-illness-in-dangerous-health-book-experts-say/?test=latestnews#ixzz1m0F1ttWc


19 posted on 02/10/2012 10:10:21 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman

It was either pulled or the search features sucks (again)


20 posted on 02/10/2012 10:12:49 AM PST by wolfcreek (Perry to Obama: Adios, MOFO!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman

Thanks for the additional research contribution.

If you had the original FR thread post-count, why did you not post the link??? And cross-post your thread??? That’s how FR research “should” work (along with appropriate “keywords”-—HINT: keyword “vanity” is not helpful for FR research of the subject under discussion)

The original thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2844698/posts

BTW: The thread has been pulled. Admin Mod says it is “under review,” BUT posts in that thread had already posted that Breitbart may have been hoaxed and cited the same absence of corroboration from the alleged source.


22 posted on 02/10/2012 10:24:36 AM PST by thouworm (.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman
Excellent work, analysis, and conclusion.

I would like to add that this hoax is disinformation, and as such, if perpetrated by a leftist or government employee, it fails to disprove the theory, by the facts being false.

23 posted on 02/10/2012 10:25:32 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman
"I took the trouble to research this because I do not want to see conservatives further distributing this hoax, nor publicly using this supposed study to justify their legitimate concerns about the alarming direction of the US government under the Obama administration."

Thanks so much for doing so. Sadly to say I am finding so many on FreeRepublic only read the first few lines of the article then start posting comments.

Also I find that my conservative friends keep passing around these phoney e-mails as if they are complete truth. They don't take the time to check them out. :-(

24 posted on 02/10/2012 10:40:18 AM PST by Spunky ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid." President Ronald Reagan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman

A ‘companion’ piece. Bretbart on a roll?

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.74114b94784222f443eb9cb09e0cddf0.131


26 posted on 02/10/2012 10:49:21 AM PST by wolfcreek (Perry to Obama: Adios, MOFO!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman

Very good work. We need more critical thinking around here.

On the other hand, it doesn’t sound that different from this real study: http://www.livescience.com/18132-intelligence-social-conservatism-racism.html


29 posted on 02/10/2012 11:14:49 AM PST by Sloth (If a tax break counts as "spending" then every time I don't rob a bank should be a "deposit.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Maceman

You can find plenty of threads on FR going back years where the first half of the thread is filled with outrage and the second half filled with mocking as it becomes evident the “news” was from semi-satire or better yet, the Onion.


30 posted on 02/10/2012 11:15:29 AM PST by douginthearmy (Obamagebra: 1 job + 1 hope + 1 change = 0 jobs + 0 hope)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021 next last

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson