Who could have anticipated that right-wing bigoted bullcrap, would be revealed to be
bigoted bullcrap? Other than those that actually gave more than a seconds thought to the matter?
A new study based on interviews with more than 200 North American Muslims concludes that a recent spate of state laws banning "sharia law" from the court system may be an overreaction to a non-existent threat...
But in a nation the falls prey to the latest conservative diatribe by mis-and/or-mal-feasance what can one expect. Behold our media
in action.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, sixteen prominent global warming deniers with scientific backgrounds — such as tobacco apologist Richard Lindzen of MIT and ExxonMobil executive Roger Cohen — concede that manmade carbon dioxide emissions have a warming effect on the planet, but argue that the effect is “small” and nothing to “panic” about.
Meanwhile,
...255 members of the United States National Academy of Sciences who wrote a letter about the scientific threat of climate change for the Wall Street Journal — but were turned down
[cross-posted at
Firedoglake]
