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Re: population controls and the Paul Holdren controversy
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:05:03 +1200
Gadi Evron wrote: <<snip>>
When I find an article that is very persuasive, no matter how base-less, unsubstantiated and full of logical fallacies it may be, I stop and admire the job done by the authors. This time they decided to character-assassinate Obama's Science Czar, Paul Holdren. And they, the winners, are Fox News. The article title says it all, in loaded language: "Obama's Science Czar Considered Forced Abortions, Sterilization as Population Growth Solutions" What likely happened: 30 years ago, Obama's Science Czar considered global warming, and described it from every angle, including the problem of population growth. He discussed many varying solutions to it--in a whopping 1000-pages book. Fox news takes this fact, demonizes the guy, and ignores the last 30 years of his work. Fascinating butchery job! They mainly use loaded language, repeating their claims ad nauseam, ad infinitum. And last but not least, ad hominem personal attacks.
At Fox News that is called "reporting" or "journalism". You are, after all, talking about a "news" chennel that feels the need to use "fair and balanced" as its tagline, so any thinking person should not be disappointed to get neither... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: population controls and the Paul Holdren controversy Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 22)
- Re: population controls and the Paul Holdren controversy Gadi Evron (Jul 22)
- Re: population controls and the Paul Holdren controversy Paul M. Moriarty (Jul 22)
- Re: population controls and the Paul Holdren controversy Gadi Evron (Jul 22)
- Re: population controls and the Paul Holdren controversy Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 22)
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- Re: population controls and the Paul Holdren controversy Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 22)
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