Tag: Associated Press
Washington Post Boosts Elderly “Rational Suicide”
The story ends with the phone number of a suicide prevention hotline. That’s just a sop after potentially putting lethal ideas into readers’ heads.
Farewell to John Lukacs: A Great Historian, and an Unequivocal Darwin Doubter
Unlike many of his academic colleagues, Lukacs did not stand in awe and wonder of Charles Darwin.
Intelligent Design, Common Descent, and an Ascent of Mount Everest
Did four-year-old Angela climb Everest by herself? No way.
Lessons from the Wansink Science Scandal
Professor Alan Levinovitz asks: Science as “a big book of Important Truths”?
Associated Press Story Accurately Presents Debate over Louisiana Science Education Act
The first Associated Press story is out about the passage of the Louisiana Science Education Act by Louisiana’s House of Representatives, and I’m pleased to say that it supplies an accurate description of the arguments both for and against the bill. That may not seem like a big deal, but when it comes to major media coverage of the evolution issue, it is. The beginning of the story states: