This site is devoted to the monitoring of the misleading numbers that rain down on us via the media. Whether they are generated by Single Issue Fanatics (SIFs), politicians, bureaucrats, quasi-scientists (junk, pseudo- or just bad), such numbers swamp the media, generating unnecessary alarm and panic. They are seized upon by media, hungry for eye-catching stories. There is a growing band of people whose livelihoods depend on creating and maintaining panic. There are also some who are trying to keep numbers away from your notice and others who hope that you will not make comparisons. Their stock in trade is the gratuitous lie. The aim here is to nail just a few of them.
Education, politics, and anything else that catches my attention.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Number Watch
What do you think of this site? I view it as an opportunity to wile away hours at a time....
A little opaque for me. I prefer junkscience.com for deflating a hysteria science devotee.
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