Hmm... I think we have different ideas of what it means to be honest and unbiased. I don't see anything wrong with the media following a story that has a bias as long as it's legitimately newsworthy - the Watergate scandal, for instance, was initially written off by the Nixon administration as "liberal bias," but was…

It looks like a TV remote... but I'm down for better pictures (and getting better every year).

This study suggests you're wrong on both counts - they're not as fat as you think, and you're fatter than you think. ;-)

To further what Still not my name has said, plenty of people (on Reddit and otherwise) fully supported the change that removed and explicitly bans any material that sexualizes children (including fully clothed children, such as Reddit's much-maligned /r/jailbait/ subreddit). The interesting thing about Reddit, though,…

It's true! Everyone on Facebook is younger than you, and there are no people of your generation (or even Boomers) on it. None. It's all these damn kids! Kids these days, you know? Explains everything.

I prefer bemusement! It's the b-version of amusement. Cheaper, not as satisfying, but it gets the job done.

Is it just me or does Andrew seem really angry in all of his posts today?

That leaves an awful lot of things that could go in this container (more than it excludes, I imagine). Hopefully most people will know it won't dispense cupfuls of butter or brown sugar, or whatever.

So news reporters are allowed to be dishonest for the purposes of uncovering news, but scientists aren't, even when they're investigating newsworthy things? This still seems like a double standard.

It seems to me that there's no reason Facebook can't be used to spot symptoms, in the same way talking to someone via text message every minute of the day might help you spot symptoms. If you know the person you're monitoring, and follow them over time, it seems relatively simple to track changes from their baseline.…

I don't know a thing about fish, but the local Thai restaurant has a big puffer - he's almost the size of a football - and he lives with a whole bunch of other fish (including a couple of blue tangs [Dory from Finding Nemo - the reason I know what it is]). I never see him do anything but stare at people as they walk…

Reading a similar article on Scientific American, the cause seems to be the low level of antibiotics that's fed to livestock constantly in order to keep them from getting sick. That's the "selective pressure" they talk about. It's a constant threat that weeds out non-resistant strains and selects for those resistant…

So I'm not wrong in thinking most of the fossils of plants I see are ferns? Good. I was beginning to think it was in my head.

Your response raises the same question it attempts to answer. On the one hand, you're saying scientists have to be better-than-average in order to be afforded any credibility... but then in your last sentence you dismiss them all as catastrophists seeking funds. Which implies none of them are credible, no matter what…

I always think, "Man, was the earth 90% covered in ferns?" Maybe they just fossilize really well... or I don't know how to tell what's a fern and what isn't.

Ah, but apparently it doesn't matter. It's the lying that's important. It's wrong to get information through misrepresentation - according to the article - and such a categorical imperative means that anything gained through such misrepresentation is tainted fruit... except that we know this isn't the case. We know…

I don't remember anyone getting bent out of shape that some conservative misrepresented himself as a pimp in order to get damning video of ACORN employees... is this, perhaps, a double standard?

Yes. Oh yes. It's like the Climategate emails... only hopefully less contentious... but I expect to be hearing about FTL neutrinos for the rest of my life.

I know what a merkin is (and that was a disappointing UD definition - the real definition? really? I was expecting something weird and hilarious)... I just didn't realize you were making a joke... but knowing what a merkin is is the only reason I know there's a writer for the Simpsons named David Mirkin. ;-)

One of the writers on the Simpsons is named David Mirkin...