Media: “to protect from a tsunami… get under a table”?
Oh dear … reporter says in the event of a tsunami, you should get under a table or sturdy piece of furniture. How embarrassing.
Media: “It’s impossible to say” but we will say it anyway
It’s impossible to make this claim, says ABC News, but we will make it anyway…
Media: “Camp Mystic girls had a safe haven by the river for 100 years. Then, the flood came.”
Except the camp has flooded numerous times. Was that really a “safe haven”?
“Science writer” works from home, outsources his disease risks to low paid delivery drivers
“Science Writers” stays at home, outsources disease risk to delivery people.
Media: Canada’s “mass graves” story collapsed
Several years ago, the world erupted in anger over allegations that perhaps 1000s of indigeneous children had died in Canadian schools and were buried in unmarked graves. The story turned out not to be true.
Follow up: Newsweek “We are all socialists now”
Newsweek: We are all Socialists Now.
Doomerism and content mills
Authoritative news service BoredPanda says there a lot of potential disasters that we just don’t know about! Scary! 100% sourced to anonymous Reddit posts! Content mill doomerism as its finest!
Does “disinformation” have much influence?
Are “disinformation” posts as widely seen, read and believed, as is asserted by “disinformation” and pro-censorship specialists?
Did the WEF urge a ban on backyard gardens? No
A study really did conclude that backyard vegetable gardens are worse for the climate than industrial agriculture. But it had nothing to do with the WEF, as some on social media have implied.
Media: TIME Magazine selects its flawed Top 100 AI Innovators List
TIME Magazine does its usual “Top 100” thing and it’s the usual nonsense and irrelevant selection process. I covered this in depth in 2023.