There may be cause for some minor celebration today as the mainstream media's tidal wave of pseudo-science retreated noticeably for the first time since the Al Gore bong-probe team discovered that the earth was literally on fire. Pseudo-scientific political polemics masquerading as news took a small step back today as NBC announced:
"Several on-camera meteorologists were laid off, including Weather Channel veterans Dave Schwartz and Cheryl Lemke. Also let go was the staff of "Forecast Earth," the channel's weekend environmental newsmagazine hosted by former CNN and MSNBC anchor Natalie Allen. The cuts also affected employees behind the scenes."
But that's not all. Simultaneously there are reports that CNN is "crushing" it's science and technology unit, and that veteran environmental reporter/anchor Miles O'Brien was also a victim of the purge.
The obvious question is whether or not the fact that two networks are thinning out their enviro-alarmist divisions simultaneously means anything. Perhaps it means that there aren't enough cataclysmic weather stories to justify having a whole division just to keep saying the same thing -- "This is definitely a result of global warming, (insert anchor's name)." Or maybe all the other talking heads are finally brainwashed enough to do the job of preaching to us themselves. It can't be that hard blaming everything on global warming.
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I only wish that environmental junk science and alarmism was being eliminated from journalism; but it is not. Case in point is the erroneous "news" that perchlorate is a "neurotoxin," made by WiredScience "Feds Set to Eliminate Water Regulations for Toxin, Dec. 3 - see here:
ReplyDeletehttp://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/government/index.html
Perchlorate is a natural salt, is not a neurotoxin, a carcinogen, or a poison. It is an endocrine disrupter that can block the absorption of iodine needed for normal growth and development of unborn and infants. However, iodine was added as a supplement to salt a century ago to overcome this problem.
The misinformation that perchlorate is a neurotoxin has been spread on websites such as Chemistry.com and Wikipedia. Neurotoxins act on nerve cells, such as a bee, spider or snake venom does to paralyze. Perchlorate does not paralyze human cells. Neither does perchlorate block sodium channels in neurons leading to paralysis and death as claimed.
Please read "News Coverage of Perchlorate Issue is 30 Miles Wide and One Inch Deep" here:
http://www.sdcwa.org/clips/2005/05may/050505/05050510news.html
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the great link. I think it's frightening how they are continually finding everyday substances "dangerous" and use them as a reason to regulate, while they force us to do stupid things like endanger our homes with mercury filled light bulbs.