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Who was it that said "Everything that Trump touches dies"?

Opinion | Rupert Murdoch Rides the Trump Tiger — and Gets Eaten The Dominion lawsuit has exposed the powerlessness of the Fox News titan.

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California Approves Bill to Punish Doctors Who Spread False Information Weighing into the fierce national debate over Covid-19 prevention and treatments, the state would be the first to try a legal remedy for vaccine disinformation.

Interview with Illia Ponomarenko, Ukraine’s most-followed war journalist |

Illia Ponomarenko: Ukraine’s most-followed war journalist is a "dude" from Donbas - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists The Bulletin talks with Illia Ponomarenko, defense reporter at the Kyiv Independent, about service journalism, the Ukrainian concept of “reasonable carelessness,” and hope for Ukraine.

Bill Barr, Ginni’s texts, and the Capitol police: Profiles in propaganda, courage, and the lack thereof This particular rumination starts with NPR’s Steve Inskeep’s interview with Bill Barr, engaged in a grubby new-book tour, asked whether he thought the Jan. 6 rioters would have hung Mik…

Most editorial and art people in medical/scientific publishing are familiar with Edward Tufte's classic, "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information." But here's a twist: The article linked below offers practical tips for using graphics to present data to colorblind people. And these approaches also seem to help folks with normal vision to better understand the message |

Colour me better: fixing figures for colour blindness Images can be made more accessible by choosing hues, shapes and textures carefully.

More than 100 Afghan journalists appeal for help through . Their names are being withheld to protect their identities. |

More than 100 Afghan journalists appeal for help through RSF | Reporters without borders More than 100 anonymous Afghan journalists have issued an urgent appeal to the international community through Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Entitled “Afghan journalism is threatened with extinction,” the appeal has been signed by a total of 103 journalists (including 20 women) from many diff...

A little under half (48%) of U.S. adults say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” a 5 percentage point decline compared with 2020, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted July 26-Aug. 8, 2021. |

News Consumption Across Social Media in 2021 About half (48%) of U.S. adults say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” a 5 percentage point decline compared with 2020. More than half of Twitter users get news on the site regularly.

How the press contributed to the tumultuous Afghanistan withdrawal, by |

The Press Also Has Responsibility for the Afghanistan Mess The American people believed our excellent coverage. This is the result.

I s**t you not: A Famous Honesty Researcher Is Retracting A Study Over Fake Data |

A Big Study About Honesty Turns Out To Be Based On Fake Data Renowned psychologist Dan Ariely literally wrote the book on dishonesty. Now some are questioning whether the scientist himself is being dishonest.

High school officials pulls a fact-checked spread on 2020-'21 events from yearbook |

High School Is Accused Of Censorship As Officials Rip Out Yearbook Pages On The News Administrators tore out a two-page timeline depicting recent events, including the police killing of George Floyd, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Jan. 6 insurrection. They cited "community backlash."

For example, a programming paper using "colossal information" instead of "big data": ‘Tortured phrases’ give away fabricated research papers |

‘Tortured phrases’ give away fabricated research papers Analysis reveals that strange turns of phrase may indicate foul play in science.

This article was accompanied by an apology, whose link is in the comment section below. |

A Note From Snopes Writers About Co-Founder's Plagiarism A BuzzFeed investigation, along with an internal Snopes investigation, has revealed dozens of plagiarized stories by company CEO David Mikkelson.

A joint report published today by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) examines the Belarusian government’s year-old crackdown on journalists |

Report analyses Lukashenko’s year-old crackdown on Belarusian journalists | Reporters without borders A joint report published today by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) examines the Belarusian government’s year-old crackdown on journalists, especially those who covered the unprecedented and massive peaceful street demonstrations calling for fair and...

On the way: presbyopia-correcting eye drops |

BLOG: Presbyopia correcting drops poised to expand the toolkit A pharmaceutical approach to presbyopia has clear advantages, will likely be used in combination with other approaches and may serve to drive surgical procedures.

U.S. newsroom employment has fallen 26% since 2008, but digital-native jobs trend up. The total, however, is shrinking. |

U.S. newsroom employment has fallen 26% since 2008 While newspapers have seen steep job losses from 2008 to 2020, digital-native news organizations have seen considerable gains.

" " like provide a new weapon in the fight against SARS-CoV-2 and future coronaviruses with pandemic potential |

‘Super-antibodies’ could curb COVID-19 and help avert future pandemics - Nature Biotechnology Companies are designing next-generation antibodies modeled on those taken from unique individuals whose immune systems can neutralize any COVID-19 variant—and related coronaviruses, too.

, license plates, and the MILF-mobile. Gotta love it.

A Nation Conceived in Liberty Confronts Its Queasiness With the “MILF Mobile” A new law banning “vulgar” vanity plates sets the stage for a free speech showdown in the Pine Tree State.

Authorship disputes can complicate peer review and damage budding careers. Here are some tips to avoid them. | |

The authorship rows that sour scientific collaborations Team science suffers when junior researchers see their career-defining contributions to a paper downplayed. Here’s how to tackle disputes.

is tough enough. And is a legitimate variable in much medical calculus. But Bari Weiss points out the overt harms of the quiet, often covert that crosses the blood-brain barrier of common medical practice and training.

What Happens When Doctors Can't Tell the Truth? Whole areas of research are off-limits. Top physicians treat patients based on their race. An ideological 'purge' is underway in American medicine.