Friday, January 27th, 2006
RECOMMENDED READING, READER’S DIGEST VERSION
Nasty, Brutish and Short. This is almost drive-by linking :o)
Matt at Conjectures & Refutations on “ The Neuroscience of Cognitive Biases“. Matt also has had an article published in the online journal The New Libertarian. Congrats !
Penraker rakes the shills at the NYT for push-polling the NSA wiretap story and engaging in blatant factual misdirection and omission. Having looked at the wording of the questions on the survey he’s quite correct.
The NYT has lost its vaunted credibility status not through virtue of being partisan – they have always been the official newspaper of the power structure of the elite liberal establishment – but by being dishonest, arrogant and just plain sloppy.
