“Flight shaming”: Global travel should be banned.
Saving the planet requires that we stop gaping and gawking at travel blogs and vacation selfies. Instead, everyone who cares about the environment should shame those who clamber onto an…
That Bangladesh mask study…
The media concluded the as yet unpublished study proves masks work, even cloth masks that the CDC and public health told people to use in the U.S. Except that’s not…
Snopes shot itself in the head
The fact checking site never fact checked itself – as their co-founder plagiarized dozens of articles and wrote fake content under a pseudonym. A BuzzFeed investigation, along with an internal…
Surge in uses of the word “Surge” in newspaper headlines
As of July 13th, “surge” is the media’s favorite new all purpose scary sounding word – surge in Covid cases, surge in inflation, surge in prices, surge in air travel,…
YouTube’s AI-based video recommendations skew, obviously, to what results in more views
The goal of Youtube, obviously, is to increase the percent of time you spend watching Youtube, and their ads every few minutes: New research published today by Mozilla backs that…
Today is 14 weeks after Michael Osterholm said the U.S. would get far worse, worse than ever, within 14 weeks
It is 14 weeks, as of today. Cases have fallen off a cliff since Osterholm not only made his projection, but spread it widely via television and mass media outlets.…
How the media warps our view towards negativity and fear regarding Covid-19
Original Earlier this week, I saw a reporter post on social media that the job of journalists is to find problems and expose them. By definition, their focus is exclusively…