Meet Andrew Wakefield, the guy whose fake study on the measles vaccine — hugely flawed, results partially faked, and funded by lawyers who results they could sue on — made consumer confidence in vaccines plummet, and as a result, helped open up new vectors for illnesses that had been mostly eradicated. Always investigate your experts [...]

Strip reference: Olbermann: There Is No ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ (VIDEO)
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Olbermann: There Is No ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ (VIDEO)

Politician meltdown into gibbering conspiracy theorist, on camera.

How facts backfire – Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains
When Corrections Fail: The persistence of political misperceptions.
In Politics, Sometimes The Facts Don’t Matter

Vatican Revises Abuse Process, but Causes Stir
“Stir.” That’s a mild way of putting it. Why haven’t they replaced this guy yet? Oh yeah, that infallible word of God thing.
Infallible. Right.

THREE MONTHS after poor regulation, shoddy construction and sleazy corporate attempts to avoid quality controls allowed British Petroleum to unleash an ecological disaster upon the Gulf, the leak is capped… for now.
Hooray.
To use a cliche, this is the tip of the iceberg that we have already run aground on. There’s years of environmental repair ahead [...]