tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post2395470150965422450..comments2024-03-23T12:05:13.464-07:00Comments on Ideas: Propaganda Masquerading as News: The Incredible Shrinking HorseDavid Friedmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543763515095867595noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-76985033165461738062017-10-22T05:04:52.126-07:002017-10-22T05:04:52.126-07:00This may be a duplicate attempt to Edit my origina...This may be a duplicate attempt to Edit my original comment which seemed to be "hacked". <br />Please substitute this citation for my poor memory of dwarf island deer. Thanks<br /> <br />https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-08820-2Poldark-Jrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16766860477817332657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-19292998874223409112017-10-22T04:12:37.779-07:002017-10-22T04:12:37.779-07:00Thanks for the opportunity to comment. Perhaps thi...Thanks for the opportunity to comment. Perhaps this is worth wider consideration. <br />I'd suggest this reference for a shorter term environmental effect. I vaguely recall a miniature island deer population demonstrating a reduction in size due to overpopulation or the animal husbandry standard of "carrying capacity" but can't find the citation. My term is "compound misery". <br /><br />https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2390661/Poldark-Jrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16766860477817332657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-81511895891568903832017-03-27T17:07:48.110-07:002017-03-27T17:07:48.110-07:00Hazel Meade, I wish you would answer my question. ...Hazel Meade, I wish you would answer my question. I've seen lots of people make some version of the claim "journalism is bad now but was good before" but I've never seen anyone substantiate it.Power Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13365109338643310492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-59007057625758122502017-03-27T07:38:18.716-07:002017-03-27T07:38:18.716-07:00The article clearly states:
"This latest work...The article clearly states:<br />"This latest work shows heating and shrinking are connected over millions of years."cbt141https://www.blogger.com/profile/16497584844044298481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-87356792572192184192017-03-26T12:47:37.777-07:002017-03-26T12:47:37.777-07:00Kurt:
My thesis was published in Nuovo Cimento, b...Kurt:<br /><br />My thesis was published in Nuovo Cimento, but I don't know if it's webbed anywhere. I decided I was a better economist than a physicist and more interested in the subject, so pretty much abandoned physics. David Friedmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06543763515095867595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-48437459738230645102017-03-26T04:01:48.808-07:002017-03-26T04:01:48.808-07:00thanks for this interesting post. I suppose the t...thanks for this interesting post. I suppose the title listed with your blog link ("Propaganda Masquerading as News") on your facebook page functioned as clickbait for me - I got to your facebook page because I saw you were fb friends with a friend whose posts I often find interesting, and I wondered whether he was friends with the US ambassador to Israel :-) So now the algorithms-that-be can connect a few more of my dots... sheesh... anyway, thanks!Susan J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07676460547965873094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-54986672694464218912017-03-23T13:15:13.848-07:002017-03-23T13:15:13.848-07:00David, is there any further information I can find...David, is there any further information I can find on your writings on physics? Did you decide to completely abandon research and loose all interest in physics after your post-doc? Is your PhD thesis published somewhere online?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11229675043427993963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-25031445236164295182017-03-19T19:50:48.231-07:002017-03-19T19:50:48.231-07:00There were two things wrong with the story. The fi...<i>There were two things wrong with the story. The first was the repeated use of the term "shrinking." What it was actually describing was evolutionary change, probably over a period of several million years, but the story never said that.</i><br /><br />Oops: "This latest work shows heating and shrinking are connected over millions of years."<br /><br />I think the author of the report assumed readers understood that evolution is modulated by environment.RKNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-89122127022596839212017-03-19T19:41:04.725-07:002017-03-19T19:41:04.725-07:00There appears to be a correlation between reading ...There <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/08/03/researchers-may-have-finally-found-an-antidote-to-biased-thinking-about-science/?utm_term=.d18557f6022e" rel="nofollow">appears</a> to be a correlation between reading clickbait (at least clickbait with "Science" in the title) and taking CAGW seriously.Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04720409839023747889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-51778256745430483192017-03-18T20:27:12.375-07:002017-03-18T20:27:12.375-07:00@Hazel Meade:
I've seen lots of people claim ...@Hazel Meade:<br /><br />I've seen lots of people claim Clickbait is becoming increasingly common, or other claims to that effect, but I don't see the evidence.<br /><br />That Clickbait is common I don't dispute--in fact, I'd say Clickbait is a condensed description of what journalism essentially is, and what separates it from other forms of media. But when was this time when journalism was any different? Ever peruse NYT headlines from 100 years ago? They're at least as outrageous.Power Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13365109338643310492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-39014835169319324912017-03-18T10:29:51.870-07:002017-03-18T10:29:51.870-07:00The value is in the title. Likely, 100 people wil...The value is in the title. Likely, 100 people will glance at the title without reading the article. The title serves to reaffirm the beliefs already held by the reader without any additional scrutiny.John C. Webbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11763638102499519533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-80985095496241864232017-03-17T13:34:11.874-07:002017-03-17T13:34:11.874-07:00It's called "Click Bait". It's b...It's called "Click Bait". It's becoming increasingly common, probably for reasons of economics and human psychology, for websites to attempt to use misleading attention grabbing headlines to entice readers to click and read further. The economics of online journalism seems to demand it give razor thin profit margins and the decline of print media. <br /><br /><br />Hazel Meadenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-5283930263923163972017-03-17T12:16:03.356-07:002017-03-17T12:16:03.356-07:00It does seem misleading, and I don't know why ...It does seem misleading, and I don't know why scientists would worry about this phenomenon. If large mammals shrink a bit to keep cool over a period of several million years, people are unlikely to notice, or to care much if they do notice. Will humanity still exist in any recognizable form in several million years? I wouldn't bet on it.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15661031964537092605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-52492367608780739922017-03-17T10:24:52.288-07:002017-03-17T10:24:52.288-07:00This was dredged up 5 years ago as well:
http://w...This was dredged up 5 years ago as well:<br /><br />http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/article00195.htmlKevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06617982196899976917noreply@blogger.com