Did the WEF urge a ban on backyard gardens? No
A study really did conclude that backyard vegetable gardens are worse for the climate than industrial agriculture. But it had nothing to do with the WEF, as some on social media have implied.
Media: Misinformation about plant-based eating
Story teller advocates via Today Show that we should eat “plant-based”, without once mentioning real life health effects such as B-12 deficiency.
Media: “Only 14 states where you can afford home on less than $75,000/year”
Hard to tell if the media likes to lie or is just incompetent or both. This story is so bad, was it written by AI?
A 1 in 1,000 year event does not mean what reporters think it means
The media, again, does not understand what a 1 in 100 or 1,000 year storm means.
Education: Privilege and entitlement
The arrogant, entitled, self absorbed, narcissistic elite think trashing universities will end the war in Gaza.
Fact check: Snopes says Covid lab origin is a conspiracy theory, and claims they never said that
Funny – fact checker Snopes said in the past that a Covid lab origin was a conspiracy theory, then one of their fact checkers denies they ever said that.
Media myth: The “world’s happiest country” myth is now the basis for follow on stories
The “world’s happiest country” myth lives on year after year after year. Finland now pretends it knows why it was identified as “the world’s happiest country”. In fact, the metrics used to determine “happiest” have nothing to do with happiest. The “happiest” title was promoted as sounding better than a metric that measured “well-being” based on things having nothing to do with happiness!
Journalism
Nothing like being off by 1000x.
Media: Demographics – Who works in the media?
Interesting demographics of journalists. About 77% have a degree is the arts or humanities, much higher than the overall population of degree holders. Fewer have a Master’s degree than in many other fields. Journalism pay is not very good.
Climate: How the media reported on tropical storm Hilary in California
The spin began with “deadly”, “life threatening”, “catastrophic” speculation, then followed that afterwards with “It wasn’t that bad”, and stories saying the tropical storm was 100% caused by the Global Boiling ClimateCrisis, and then a few adding historical context of past tropical storms and even a hurricane.