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AP hops on Saint Obama bandwagon

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:29:20 GMT

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My colleague Warner Todd Huston was first to report the wire service Reuters publishing a picture of a saintly Barack Obama surrounded by a halo.

Now, the Associated Press has gotten into the act (h/t NBer Roger the Shrubber):

Is this an accident? Have you seen any pictures of St. McCain?

Tags: ap, obama, media, bias, msm, politics

Study: "Don't ask, don't tell" doesn't work

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:16:40 GMT

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Clip Source: www.boston.com

WASHINGTON—Congress should repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" law because the presence of gays in the military is unlikely to undermine the ability to fight and win, according to a new study released by a California-based research center.

The study was conducted by four retired military officers, including the three-star Air Force lieutenant general who in early 1993 was tasked with implementing President Clinton's policy that the military stop questioning recruits on their sexual orientation.

"Evidence shows that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly is unlikely to pose any significant risk to morale, good order, discipline or cohesion," the officers states.

Undermining unit cohesion was a determining factor when Congress passed the 1993 law, intended to keep the military from asking recruits their sexual orientation. In turn, service members can't say they are gay or bisexual, engage in homosexual activity or marry a member of the same sex.

Tags: equality, bias, military, politics

'Mind's eye' influences visual perception

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:53:46 GMT

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Clip Source: www.physorg.com

'Mind's eye' influences visual perception

A graphic depiction of the sequence of events in the experiment from top left to bottom right. First, a person looks at a blank screen and imagines a green pattern. Next, she puts on the red-green glasses and looks at a screen with two superimposed patterns: one green and one red. The green pattern is visible to one eye and the red image is visible to the other eye. The longer she has spent imagining the green pattern, the more likely it is that she will see the green pattern, demonstrating that what people imagine can influence what they see later in time. Credit: Joel Pearson

Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from Vanderbilt University has found that mental imagery—what we see with the "mind's eye"—directly impacts our visual perception.

"We found that imagery leads to a short-term memory trace that can bias future perception," says Joel Pearson

Tags: science

Hyped up drug studies

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:19:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If you read the full article, some of the methods they use to make drugs look good are shocking. For example, if a drug doesn't reduce deaths from strokes, but does reduce the incidence of disability in survivors, they add the two numbers together in one column and claim that the drug reduces "death and disability" (meaning "death + disability," but people assume it means that the likelihood of death is reduced, too).

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How often do today’s medical “breakthroughs” become tomorrow’s discredited science? John P. A. Ioannidis, an epidemiologist at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and the University of Ioannina School of Medicine in Greece, studied the question. He examined the most-cited clinical studies published in the top three medical journals between 1990 and 2000 to see how well researchers’ initial claims held up against subsequent research. His findings, published in JAMA, show that the key claims of nearly one-third (14 out of 49) of the original research studies he examined were either false or exaggerated. Small study size, design flaws, publication bias (failure to publish negative results or duplication of positive results), drug-industry influence, and the play of chance were among the problems Ioannidis found that caused false or exaggerated claims.

Tags: science, medicine, drugs, pharmaceuticals

McCain: "I really didn't love America"

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:15:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: funny how Faux news derides Michelle Obama (out of context) for "for the first time...I am proud of my country," but actually _edits_out_ McCain making similar statements.

Clip Source: foxattacks.com

MCCAIN:

I really didn't love America

[Video]

Tags: mccain, media, bias, fox

First Clips

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:51:17 GMT

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Clip Source: www.spring.org.uk

Psychologists have found that right from the moment an event occurs, is laid down in memory (or not), to the moment we try to retrieve it (or can't), our minds are fallible. Harvard psychologist Professor Daniel L. Schacter has classified memory's slips, ambiguities and downright lies into the 'seven sins of memory': transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias and persistence (Schacter, 1999).

Clip Source: www.cracked.com

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The "Mind's Eye" influences visual perception

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:41:57 GMT

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Clip Source: www.newswise.com

Newswise — Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from Vanderbilt University has found that mental imagery--what we see with the "mind's eye"--directly impacts our visual perception.

The research was published online June 26 by the journal Current Biology.

"We found that imagery leads to a short-term memory trace that can bias future perception," Joel Pearson, research associate in the Vanderbilt Department of Psychology. and lead author of the study, said. "This is the first research to definitively show that imagining something changes vision both while you are imagining it and later on."

"These findings are important because they suggest a potential mechanism by which top-down expectations or recollections of previous experiences might shape perception itself," Pearson and his co-authors wrote.

Comedian Sarah Haskins: feminism as a lifelong war against pantyhose

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:20:42 GMT

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Clip Source: www.thebastion.org

Do you consider yourself a feminist, and if so, what does that mean to you, and what role do you think it plays in your comedy?

Yes, I’m a feminist. It is an extension of my lifelong war against pantyhose.

To me it means that as women we are individuals before we are gendered people and that we’re not defined by our gender except in the ways we chose to appropriate that definition.

We’re in a weird generation, right? Our Moms were forced to grapple with that definition more immediately, and I think it’s changed as we’ve grown up. The core issue "how do I fight bias against me because of my gender" is still there but has gotten more complicated and wrapped into all kinds of identity issues about how you present yourself as a woman and I pretty much think it's your choice and fuck pantyhose. So, hence my answer above.

I think all comedians bring their experience and perspective to comment on the world and I am a woman, so that gets involved.

Tags: women, feminism, funny, comedians, culture

BBC's First Warped Headline Before It Gets Changed

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:21:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Our Special One Year Analysis of the BBC demonstrated how its headline selection for stories focused on combat and terrorist attacks was inconsistent and favored the Palestinian side. Stories about Palestinian attacks never directly named the aggressors,
headlines such as "Rocket injures dozens in Israel" were used.

Indeed, even the latest BBC headline "Bulldozer rampage hits Jerusalem", is also fundamentally flawed, failing to attribute the attack to the Palestinian individual who carried it out. It was not the city of Jerusalem, the subject of the headline, that was murdered, but at least three innocent Israelis.

For accurate coverage and the latest developments from Jerusalem on this breaking story, see English-language Israeli sources such as The Jerusalem Post, Ha'aretz and YNet News. You can also read the thoughts of HonestReporting's Backspin blog editor who happened to be in downtown Jerusalem at the time of the terror atttack.

Clip Source: www.honestreporting.com

At the time of writing, more details are emerging on today's (Wednesday July 2) terror attack on Jerusalem's busy Jaffa Street thoroughfare. A Palestinian resident of Jerusalem went on the rampage in a bulldozer, attacking two buses, a number of cars and innocent passers-by, killing at least three people and wounding dozens more before being shot by an Israeli policeman.

While BBC Online currently covers the story "Bulldozer rampage hits Jerusalem," this was not the original headline. Offering a glimpse into the BBC's warped journalism

This pattern was also repeated on the BBC's television coverage (screenshot below from BBC World).

That this terror attack took place opposite Jerusalem Capital Studios, the local headquarters for many international media outlets, including BBC, Sky News and CNN, ensured that footage and coverage were available almost immediately.

Tags: bbc, news, media bias, bulldozer, jerusalem, palestinian

Rachael Ray Employee Claims Anorexia Bias

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:50:04 GMT

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Clip Source: www.comcast.net

NEW YORK — A former accountant for Rachael Ray's TV cooking show has filed a $1 million lawsuit saying he was forced out of his job because he has an eating disorder.

The more, the better, says Fox News host Chris Wallace

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:45:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I like what he is saying. It's true.

Clip Source: www.mvtimes.com

The more, the better, says Fox News host Chris Wallace

Chris Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday, a television public affairs program based in Washington, D.C., thinks the proliferation of news sources across the electronic spectrum is a good thing. The consumer, faced with more choices, must simply be more discerning.

"And whether you like Fox News or don't like it, it seems to me that it is a healthy development if only because it creates another view point and some competition for the mainstream media and another place where people can get information, and by comparison check out whether they are getting the full story."

since coming to Fox four and a half years ago, I have come to see things a little differently. And I, in fact, do believe there is a bias in the mainstream media and that is something I was only able to understand when I was outside of it."

"You just have to be a good consumer and figure out who seems to know what they are talking about and who doesn't,"

Fast Picnic Recipes

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:02:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

101 20-Minute Dishes for Inspired Picnics

1 BEET SALAD Peel beets and grate them (a food processor will keep the juice contained). Add pistachios or hazelnuts; dress with orange zest and juice, and olive oil. Add bits of goat cheese and chopped parsley.

2 PESTO CHICKEN ROLLS Season and grill chicken cutlets. Brush lavash or any other wrap-type bread with pesto; layer with the chicken, sun-dried tomatoes and arugula; roll up and cut on the bias.

3 CURRIED EGG SALAD Make egg salad with hard-cooked eggs, mayo, curry powder, Dijon mustard, fresh lime juice, salt, pepper, cilantro, red onion and, if you like, diced apple.

8 COLD PEANUT NOODLES Cook Chinese egg noodles or regular spaghetti. Drain and rinse. Toss with sesame oil, peanut butter (or tahini), sugar, soy sauce, ginger, vinegar, black pepper (lots) and chili oil (optional). Pack shredded seeded cucumber, cooked shrimp and chopped scallions separately.

Sheeple--Yous are now free to do what you're told.

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:58:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Whole article is biting. Sheeple--bah, baaa-baaa

Clip Source: www.opednews.com

Brain scans revealed that the politically biased are virtually addicted to lying to themselves to maintain their view that their party and leaders are flawless. People of both political "sides" are equally affected by bias.

When viewing truth that doesn't suit our ideals, most of us deny it and go on as if it never happened mainly because few of us even understand the way bias affects us and makes us completely irrational.

Millions of Americans suffer from this, and nationalism bias runs even deeper. Most people think that blindly believing what our government tells us is patriotism. That is false.

Most people doubt that our leaders would ever do anything that isn't in our best interest. Most of us live in a delusional reality based on denial as a result. By definition most of us are in fact "sheeple".

All media outlets owned by 5 Mega-Corporations. CNN controlled. CBS controlled. Fox controlled. MSNBC controlled. ABC controlled. And that means your entertainment too.

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Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:15:56 GMT

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'Mind's eye' influences visual perception

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:14:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ..even a single instance of imagery can tilt how you see the world one way or another..

Clip Source: www.physorg.com

"We found that imagery leads to a short-term memory trace that can bias future perception," says Joel Pearson, research associate in the Vanderbilt Department of Psychology. and lead author of the study. "This is the first research to definitively show that imagining something changes vision both while you are imagining it and later on."

"You might think you need to imagine something 10 times or 100 times before it has an impact,"

Our results show that even a single instance of imagery can tilt how you see the world one way or another, dramatically, if the conditions are right."

"These findings are important because they suggest a potential mechanism by which top-down expectations or recollections of previous experiences might shape perception itself,"

Tags: 'mind's eye', visual perception, brain, imagination