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Old 15-03-2015, 05:21 PM posted to rec.gardens
Hypatia Nachshon Hypatia Nachshon is offline
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Default Scientists lie?

On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 10:45:05 PM UTC-7, Bob F wrote:
Frank wrote:
Who would have thunk it?


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/eart...ndal-ever.html


And then, yhere's reality.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact...icated-temper/


Thanks, Bob F. for another mention of Politifact (I cited them under Subject "Pants on Fire" as one of the primo debunk sources for those not wedded to their beliefs in disregard of facts.

Here's link to St. Petersburg Fl (yes, really, Florida!!!)* Pulitzer Prize** for Politifact's national reporting on, inter alia, 2008 election

http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/200...onal-Reporting


* FF (foreign friends) Florida is not, uh, the most "progressive" -- in the old, true, non-crazy sense -- State in the Union.

**FF - you no doubt know that the Pulitzer Prize is THE honor that journalists and other of the written word aspire to.

pulitzer.org

Curious if your countries have something similar.

HB