May 7, 2024 05:50 PM
"Washington Post" caters to past lives of children
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/wash...ast-lives/
INTRO: Generally speaking the mainstream media does a terrible job of reporting anything in the realm of pseudoscience or the paranormal. The Washington Post’s recent article on children who apparently remember their past lives is no exception. Journalists generally don’t have the background or skill set necessary to deal with these often complex topics. They also don’t seem to care... (MORE - details)
The unscientific "Scientific American"
https://www.city-journal.org/article/uns...can?skip=1
Science journalism surrenders to [radical] progressive ideology.
EXCERPTS: Michael Shermer got his first clue that things were changing at Scientific American in late 2018. The author had been writing his “Skeptic” column for the magazine since 2001. [...] “I started to see the writing on the wall toward the end of my run there,” Shermer told me. “I saw I was being slowly nudged away from certain topics.”
[...] Shermer dug his grave deeper by quoting Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald and "The Coddling of the American Mind" authors Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, who argue that the rise of identity-group politics undermines the goal of equal rights for all...
[...] Today’s journalistic failings don’t owe simply to lazy reporting or a weakness for sensationalism but to a sweeping and increasingly pervasive worldview. It is hard to put a single name on this sprawling ideology. It has its roots both in radical 1960s critiques of capitalism and in the late-twentieth-century postmodern movement that sought to “problematize” notions of objective truth.... (MORE - details)
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/wash...ast-lives/
INTRO: Generally speaking the mainstream media does a terrible job of reporting anything in the realm of pseudoscience or the paranormal. The Washington Post’s recent article on children who apparently remember their past lives is no exception. Journalists generally don’t have the background or skill set necessary to deal with these often complex topics. They also don’t seem to care... (MORE - details)
The unscientific "Scientific American"
https://www.city-journal.org/article/uns...can?skip=1
Science journalism surrenders to [radical] progressive ideology.
EXCERPTS: Michael Shermer got his first clue that things were changing at Scientific American in late 2018. The author had been writing his “Skeptic” column for the magazine since 2001. [...] “I started to see the writing on the wall toward the end of my run there,” Shermer told me. “I saw I was being slowly nudged away from certain topics.”
[...] Shermer dug his grave deeper by quoting Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald and "The Coddling of the American Mind" authors Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, who argue that the rise of identity-group politics undermines the goal of equal rights for all...
[...] Today’s journalistic failings don’t owe simply to lazy reporting or a weakness for sensationalism but to a sweeping and increasingly pervasive worldview. It is hard to put a single name on this sprawling ideology. It has its roots both in radical 1960s critiques of capitalism and in the late-twentieth-century postmodern movement that sought to “problematize” notions of objective truth.... (MORE - details)