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Posts Tagged ‘disinformation’

Little Green Men

Friday, April 8th, 2011

[via FBI FOIA Vault] Whether or not little green men were recovered, there is a conspiracy surrounding either the spread or release of this information – the existence of this document moves such a claim from the realm of conspiracy theory to that of documented conspiracy.

We no longer have a “free media”…

Monday, May 24th, 2010

[via Steve Dekorte] Suffice it to say that, in all my experience, 43 years, there has been one seat change in our body politic and that I would suggest is the fact is that we no longer have a “free media” in any meaningful sense of the term. You have to really try, you have [...]

Welcome to my tar pit…

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Actually, if you are reading this, you are not presently a resident fossil in the brand-new Operator Speaking Tar Pit. … but watch yourself – you never know … Tar Pit Operation Record incoming user agent, IP address Compare user agent, IP address to Black List On match, apply ban level (deny, poison) protocol Tar [...]

Neurolinguistic Priming [Oscar Wilde]

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

All I ask of you is to perform a certain scientific experiment. You go to hospitals and dead-houses, and the horrors that you do there don’t affect you. If in some hideous dissecting-room or fetid laboratory you found this man lying on a leaden table with red gutters scooped out in it for the blood [...]

(Dis)information Technology Used For Libel, Facebook As Grounds For Arrest, Advent of Citizen:Citizen Background Checks

Monday, September 28th, 2009

If you’re in a custody battle, your ex’s lawyers would love to present you as the nonnurturing type. Delete all the crazy party photos. – Five Facebook No-Nos for Divorcing CouplesTIME 2009-09-28 The lawsuit alleges that not only did the teens in question create the profile with the plaintiff’s real name, but they also include [...]

Science Through The Distorted Lens Of Media

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

A rather amazing thing happened this week in the often somewhat sorry state of reporting of medical research: a newspaper allowed an author of a scientific paper the chance to correct what he felt were misperceptions in the reporting of his work. [...] Although the article in the Guardian was, as Baron Cohen noted “mostly [...]