Brian Stelter profiles two of the Internet’s true heroes: David and Barbara Mikkelson are among those trying to clean the cesspool. The unassuming California couple run Snopes, one of the most popular fact-checking destinations on the Web. For well over a decade they have acted as arbiters in the Age of Misinformation by answering the […]
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Reacting to critics: On the other hand
Musing about how people react to criticism, Theodore Dalrymple, inspired by Richard Dawkins [pictured here, at right], writes about George Bernard Shaw (who reportedly scorned the idea that microbes can cause disease): “I suspect that he had that contrarian mindset that supposes that the truth must be the opposite of what everyone thinks, instead of […]
Quasi-Russian Putdown: Mendel vs Darwin
Mendel was true scientist, not Darwin! So says the Christian science (with a small “s”) analyst Babu G. Ranganathan, of Boyertown, Pennsylvania, in the February 13, 2009 issue of Pravda.