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Wisconsin threatens to strip the vote from prediction market participants
Many actions today are termed “threats to democracy,” and this is often an exaggeration. But the term fits to a tee the Wisconsin Elections…
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Hopping the fence: The failures of social media bans
There is growing global momentum toward mandatory age verification and stricter internet safety regulations. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 56…
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Congress should fight piracy, not make ISPs internet police
Online piracy is a serious problem for content creators and rightsholders. Studies estimate that unauthorized streaming and downloads cost the US economy billions…
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Bush a Piker at Manipulating Science, Compared to Clinton, Gore
The political silly season has spawned a flurry of attacks on the Bush administration for “politicizing science.” To be sure, some of the…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 11, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> “I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate,…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 10, 2004
Receipt available as a pdf. “Once during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 9, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Vegetarian: a person who eats no meat, and sometimes no animal products…
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Down in the Dumps
When most people hear the words “illegal dumping,” they probably think of someone using somebody else's trash dumpster without permission. However, in the…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 8, 2004
Day 8: Despite the claims of certain food nannies that McDonalds has a uniform menu throughout the country, I have found that this…