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April 9, 2013 0

Meta-analysis in the middle

By News Desk

Tweet My general view both in general and as a policymaker in my small local-office pond is that a widely held (few expert dissenters) and strongly held (high confidence) consensus position might as well be a fact as far as the policymaking is concerned . A contradictory study is just that, a study. If it turns out to be accurate, then the consensus will eventually fracture soon enough and create problems for policymakers, but there’s no need or even a rational way for policymaking to jump the gun

March 24, 2013 0

Storyful – Niche Propagandists Work Full-Time Distorting Syria Conflict

By News Desk

March 24, 2013 (LD) – The Western media monopolies, the same media houses that willfully and repeatedly told lies regarding “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq to help sell the corporate-financier engineered invasion and occupation of the Middle Eastern nation for a decade, have been very busy since. They helped sell NATO and its corporate-financier backers’ war of aggression and subjugation against Libya, and has been attempting to sell a repeat of the atrocities committed in North Africa, this time in Syria. They certainly have their hands full