Politics
The health care “opposition” is fake
Like the “Brooks Brothers Riot” after the 2000 election and the “tea party” silliness earlier this year, the current town hall opposition to health care reform is not a grassroots, Middle American movement.
Instead, it’s a top-down, highly coordinated effort to create the illusion of a popular uprising. This phenomenon is known as astroturfing.
Let’s examine who’s [...]
Not even wrong
The Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli once said, after reading a “scientific” paper, “Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!” (“That is not only not right, it’s not even wrong!”)
The phrase “not even wrong” has since come to refer to ideas that are so malformed that they cannot even be assessed.
Here’s an [...]
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