Volenta wrote:I have to give you this one. They certainly love to entertain the crowd, while not always being quite accurate/careful.
I call it Asappseudoscience. Bad science, in my view, does more harm than good. Blech, I hate yellow journalism.
Volenta wrote:They made some other errors in their word choices as well, but there wasn't much wrong with it content-wise, right?
I wouldn't bet on it, but it really doesn't matter.
It's perfectly possible to lie with true facts by citing them in a deceptive context to trick people, like when the meat industry says cows are responsible for something like 2% of greenhouse gas.
Yes, that's probably true, and that it's over 16% of global warming, which they choose not to mention, since methane is much more potent than CO2.
Using words incorrectly is a powerful way to do that.
Did you know Clinton never had sexual relations with that woman? It's true. If you define sexual relations in a very narrow and specific way.
You can make anything true by bending words far enough.