Cosmic Variance is a group blog by people who, coincidentally or not, all happen to be physicists and astrophysicists:
Our day (and night) jobs notwithstanding, the blog is about whatever we find interesting — science, to be sure, but also arts, politics, culture, technology, academia, and miscellaneous trivia. We have similar outlooks on many things, widely disparate opinions about others, and will do our best to keep the discourse reasonably elevated.
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August 7th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
How… bland.
In the Leftwingoverse (I feel stupid just writing that):
* Ahmadinejad just wants peaceful nuclear power!
* Increases in CO2 concentrations precede temperature increases!
* Journalists are like totally objective … and unbiased … and stuff!
August 7th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Sorry you didn’t like it Tony. However, in my opinion, your list is ill thought out. I don’t have a real opinion on your first point; your second point isn’t left or right wing, it’s science; and your third point seems contradicted by the opinion expressed in many posts we’ve done on this blog (which I assume you think of as part of the leftwingoverse).
August 7th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
Is the rightwingoverse the multiverse minus the leftwingoverse? If it is, then I can’t think of a more treacherous patch of the cosmic landscape to traverse, even with the anthropic principle as a guide.;-)
August 8th, 2006 at 12:32 am
This refers to today’s AP article, repeated in the NY Times:
“Do you believe in Iraqi WMD? Did Saddam Hussein’s government have weapons of mass destruction in 2003?
Half of America apparently still thinks so, a new poll finds, and experts see many reasons why: a drumbeat of voices from talk radio to die-hard bloggers to the Oval Office, a surprise headline here or there, a rallying around a partisan flag, and a growing need for people, in their own minds, to justify the war in Iraq.”
Oooh, those evil bloggers! How dare they question what we tell them! Who voted the White House more power than the media? The people? They are stupider than us educated elites!
Who is losing this battle?
August 8th, 2006 at 6:46 am
Such a familiar theme… people believe tend to believe what they wish, or what makes them feel comfortable, facts be damned. Spinmeister pundits certainly don’t help matters.
August 8th, 2006 at 6:47 am
Whoops, apologies for the extra “believe” above.
August 18th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Tony,
You can ask him here