Interesting article in the Columbian Journalist Review: How ‘Balanced’ Coverage Lets the Scientific Fringe Hijack Reality

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/6/mooney ... nce.asp</a>

Interesting article in the Columbian Journalist Review: How ‘Balanced’ Coverage Lets the Scientific Fringe Hijack Reality</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>One of the biggest problems is getting journalists up to a level of knowledge to know truth from bullshit to even be in a position to speak with authority on anything at all, much less make it balanced. Still, good piece...</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>In a nutshell, by adding balance to an idea so stupid that it shouldn't be mentioned, you are bringing the idea up to the opposite's level, and bringing the opposite down to balance it out, just like a real set of scales.</div>

[ManaMan]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>You'd think the pro-life people would be more concerned about the ending of a human life that somebody getting breast cancer anyway...</div>