demagogue on 24/8/2010 at 22:35
The "Ministry of Misinformation" charge is giving these nitpicks too much credit, I think. You need some pretty evil intentions behind your fabrications to deserve a charge like that. Most all of these are examples of just lazy researching & reporting.
Quote Posted by JACKofTrades
when did didn't become diddent
o no u di'int
Edit: Wow, perfect timing. A friend just linked to a (
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-23-2010/the-parent-company-trap?xrs=share_fb) Daily Show clip on Fox News, exhibit A for this topic. Apparently one of the major funding orgs of the "Terror Mosque" in NYC they criticize is run by the part-owner of Fox News's parent corporation. Jon Stewart is merciless & boils it down to the essential question when Fox News criticizes him without mentioning who he is: Are they that evil or just that stupid?
Tocky on 25/8/2010 at 02:09
Follow the money demagogue.
Quote Posted by baeuchlein
elves could mean much smaller beings than the ones we see in fantasy stories today. The description of a (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle#Spiritualism) picture that fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, showing "fairies", is sometimes translated as "showing elves", another hint at smaller beings named like that. However, thanks to J.K.Rowling's "house-elves", all may not be lost, at least not yet.;)
They weren't so well thought of either- (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Cleary) . In addition to being creepy as all yuhuuhyuahuhah it may be the first recorded instance of a yo momma comeback.
Certainly a different brand of lethal misinformation in the good ole days.
Nicker on 25/8/2010 at 05:39
Perfect timing for this thread! Unfortunately the (
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11063939) object of my derision has apparently been modified to largely remove the eye-rollingly amateurish material.
The article was/is an apparent attempt by the BBC to create a rich vein of authoritative quotes for creationists to mine. The original headline crowed how "survival of the fittest" was in doubt as a mechanism of natural selection, suggesting serious dissent between modern scientists and Darwin.
In fact the (yawn) "living space" hypothesis is a semantic exercise rather than a real re-think of natural selection.
Of course the part where the proper perspective is found is at the end of the article, far below the incendiary opening paragraphs and long after any creationist has chipped off a few BBC approved nuggets and produced a 15 minute youtube video proving evolution to be a crock...
baeuchlein on 25/8/2010 at 12:28
Oh, don't get me started on evolution.:tsktsk:
Just
one of all the "reality changes": Until a few months ago, it was widespread "knowledge" that there was no interbreeding between (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal) the Neanderthal man and the homo sapiens sapiens, the ancestor of today's humans. But then, some months ago, scientists talked about hints that there indeed was some interbreeding. All of a sudden, it's common "knowledge" that the Neanderthal
did interbreed. So much for another myth about sex.:p
Although the driving force behind this "change" of reality is different, it really reminds me of the Ministery of Truth...:cheeky:
Quote Posted by Martin Karne
Are you trying to tell us there are no laser guns, and no flying cars all over the world, and that we don't have a space wheel up there in orbit and there is no colony on neither Mars or the moon?
Of course they're there! But the Ministery of Truth recently stated we never had these, so they're... ummm... They're not there, we never had them, no one ever thought of them... really, what's that you're talking about?:laff:
Queue on 25/8/2010 at 12:43
I had doing a take on the Misitry of Information, from
Brazil, more in mind.
...but who wouldn't want to work in Pornosec?
DDL on 25/8/2010 at 13:34
Quote Posted by baeuchlein
All of a sudden, it's common "knowledge" that the Neanderthal
did interbreed.
Bet those fucking neanderthals are behind the current wave of STDs. Bastards are riddled with chlamydia, I'd wager.
Kolya on 25/8/2010 at 15:56
Neanderthalers were also stealing homo sapiens jobs.
Queue on 25/8/2010 at 16:05
I hate it when they start moving into the area. Cave values go down, fully-dressed girls start hanging out on street corners trying to pickup tricks, carts full of them keep going round and round while one of them in the back bangs two rocks together as loudly as possible.
It's shameful.
There goes the evolution!
demagogue on 25/8/2010 at 18:28
Speaking of which, I went to the Natural History Museum in D.C. on Sunday and saw a cute exhibit decorated like a cave with 4 archaeological finds spread out (as they were found at the real world site), which were consecutive clues -- some stone tools, half a skull, a complete skeletal hand, and dirt samples -- and a video explaining each clue. I liked that it was somewhat interactive and gives that sense of discovery & solving a mystery. Turns out that our neanderthal cousins lived communally, took care of their elderly, and buried their dead with flowers. So you see they're not too different from you and me.
Tocky on 26/8/2010 at 02:01
Neanderthal lover!
