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  1. Don't whine! Create fact police or do it yourself: not fact interpretation police. Look up what Darwin said about false facts. I complained to a fact checker over a woefully misleading news story. The fact checker responded that they can only check on facts that are cited in a story. They can't check on facts that are left out. This is why peer review is so important. Fact checkers are not experts in every subject and are not in place to judge anything but the quality of the information cited in a story. Stories are jealously guarded so reporters are also reluctant to let others know what they are working on so in the final analysis it is up to the consumer to judge the veracity of a story. Fact checkers are responsible for the facts not the interpretation of the facts or the sufficiency. This is actually a pretty good epiphany because it requires people to think and research rather than suck down the swill. It is a standard political tactic to drop a hand grenade to close to an election fro the public to sort out the information. However it is never to late once discovered to pay attention to the perpetrator and mark them permanently in ones deleted and never to be trusted list. Harry Rieds comment when he was confronted on his personal Romney hand grenade. "Well he didn't get elected did he?" Speaks volumes for the man's character and he can speak as much as he wants from now on but my ears will be deaf to him because he acknowledged that he does not hold any respect for me and feels manipulation is an acceptable tactic. This is just an example and goes FOR ANY ONE. This also applies to those taking metaphors literally and twisting them into "straw man" double talk or immediately implying nuclear defects in the person that disagrees. See where that tactic has gotten us. So I say bring on the bull shit! We start out now not trusting any of them which in itself is refreshing. Mark the bull shitters as they reveal themselves and make a list of those whose information helps us to make decisions with skill in prediction of a good result.

  2. stupid is like being dead! on IPCC's "Darkest Yet" Climate Report Warns of Food, Water Shortages · · Score: 1

    What is it about the models FAILED that these corpses don't get? Stupid is like being dead it effects everyone around the deceased but the dead don't know it. Aargh! They wont stay dead! We are dealing with zombies! A Model prediction is not data. A model prediction is not data! The CAGW predictions show NO skill in predicting. The data falsifies the theory AGW as proposed is therefor not significant. Ocum's Razor prevents any preservation of the failed theory by rejecting a strategy based upon introducing a compounding complication.