There was a very interesting study completed at the University of Michigan entitled When Corrections Fail: The persistence of political misperceptions by researchers Brendan Nyhan, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, and Jason Reifler, Department of...
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Yesterday, I reported that the South Dakota state legislature moved a bill along that calls for a balanced teaching of global warming, "especially since global warming is a scientific theory and not a proven fact," to quote HR1009. This notion of using "theory" in...
Yesterday, I reported that the South Dakota state legislature moved a bill along that calls for a balanced teaching of global warming, "especially since global warming is a scientific theory and not a proven fact," to quote HR1009. This notion of using "theory" in...
Yes, it did snow today in Atlanta, and indeed all around the southeastern region of the USA. It normally does not snow in March in Atlanta. This year has been the year snow, especially in the eastern part of the USA. Some pundants, and especially one US Senator have...
There was an interesting discussion in Yong Zhao's book, Catching Up, or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization about how John F. Kennedy used the launching of Sputnik to suggest that a "Missile Gap" existed between the United States and...
