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...national laughingstock.” And he’s probably right. Despite the fact that the ads will run on cable and in the influential—and up-for-grabs—states of Pennsylvania, Nevada and New Mexico, the group has already been exposed as dubious, so it’s unlikely that the American public will put much stock in the new ads—I hope. Rather, the group’s revitalization is just indicative of the problem endemic to current campaign finance laws...
Simons, who has followed the Ig Nobels for several years, says the dubious honor came as a pleasant surprise for research he completed six years ago. “I was really excited,” he said. “I like the idea of science being fun as well as informative...
...notion that the president mishandled Iraq is a particularly dubious assertion when coming from the mouth of John Kerry. In his speech at New York University last week, the senator said, “Five months ago, in Fulton, Missouri, I said that the President was close to his last chance to get it right… [w]e must act with urgency.” For all of Kerry’s urgency and insistence that the situation in Iraq has been mishandled, he seems completely unable to articulate a plan of action for Iraq five months after...
Shortly after the CSPIRG study’s release, national legislators called on the General Accounting Office (GAO) to launch an investigation of publishers, ensuring that they were not engaging in price fixing or other dubious acts to keep costs high for students. CSPIRG’s report, “Ripoff 101: How the Current Practices of the Textbook Industry Drive Up the Cost of College Textbooks,” also led to hearings this summer before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Education Committee...
Take the CBS document story. The clues to the alleged forgery were not discovered by the bloggers themselves--but by their readers. While CBS had a handful of experts look at the dubious memos (and failed to heed their concerns), the blogosphere enlisted hundreds within hours. Debates ensued, with different blogs challenging others over various abstruse points. Yes, some of this was fueled by raw partisanship and bias. The blogosphere is not morally pure. But the result was that the facts were flushed out more effectively and swiftly than the old media could ever have hoped. The collective mind also...