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News Briefs 25-01-2017

Everything we know is wrong

Thanks @djp1974.

Quote of the Day:

We don’t live in the age of post-truth. We live in the age of internet-enabled bullshit.

Massimo Pigliucci

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  1. Ormes – Element Zero
    I nominate the monatomic form of transition group elements (aka “white powder gold”) as a candidate for “element zero” though the elements might be more accurately called “omega” unless we can be lenient enough to consider the possibility that the element table is a snake biting it’s own tail.

    Unlike the postulated element “neutronium” these are element states that still have electrons, but the electrons are not behaving as usual and the nucleus is not behaving as usual either.

    http://customers.hbci.com/~wenonah/new/hudson.htm

  2. Pugliucci
    Pugliucci’s quote sounds like he is ahistorical enough not to remember what a morass of misinformation mass media has always been. If anything, the so called “post truth” world emanates most numerously from corporate owned mass media now. The difference between the bullshit of modern mass media and the bullshit on the internet is that inquiring minds have choices on the internet whereas there is hardly any choice on the force-fed telly, radio and newsprint and a poverty of independent sources.

    To wit:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp-Wh77wt1o

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    https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/reporters-tell-me-the-truth-off-the-record-the-fake-news-business/

    “Most reporters who cover major issues are de facto intelligence assets. Some know it, most don’t. They’re all taking their information from controlled sources. It’s like somebody giving you talking points as if they’re the honest truth. In these talking points, you’re told who the players are in a story and what they’re doing. But they aren’t the important players, and what they’re doing is just a cover for what’s really going on. It’s all about misdirection”

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