American automakers are fed up with trying to save drivers from themselves. Calling it futile to try to prevent death or injury during the use of their products because “there will always be crazies and criminals intent on harming others,” they are going to strip out extraneous safety features, such as seat belts, airbags, and […]
Read More...Astronomy Project Loses Funding after Finding Extraterrestrial Life
Scientists using x-ray telescopy and observations from the Hubble satellite have identified a planet that they say is 99.9% likely to be inhabited by intelligent life forms, but Congress recently retracted all funding for the project, putting it on the shelf indefinitely.
Read More...Left-Leaning Think Tank Offers New Solution to Climate Change
A new study from the Brightsky Foundation has identified the single activity in American life that does the most to prevent emissions of gases that lead to global warming. The team of researchers and policy analysts who compiled the study also released a series of proposals to expand these salubrious activities and, they estimate, reduce the nation’s total emissions by 50% or more over a decade.
Read More...Make Education Work by Denying It to Most People, Says New Report
A team of researchers has found that public education is a waste for up to 90% of the American population. Their solution: Provide direct cash payments rather than schooling for most Americans. The findings are contained in a blockbuster report called “Vast Satanic Mills: Seeing Public Education for What It Is” that was released today […]
Read More...The Sadness of Seeing Corruption Punished
When you see a man like Sepp Blatter, or any of his fellow grandees in the international soccer regulatory body FIFA, laid low by corruption charges, it is not shameful to shed a tear or two. Recent research is showing that self-interested and exploitative behavior by elites, like the actions of the FIFA boys, is value-creating and in some cases even heroic.
Read More...The Venn Diagram to Explain All Venn Diagrams
We recently attended a lecture on the history of propaganda. In fact, the point of the lecture was that history is propaganda–from Alexander the Great’s scribes through Julius Caesar and Napoleon, we can not assuredly separate fact from interpretation from self-generated myth.
But things have changed, you might think. We live in an era of reporting, and impartial fact-finding commissions, and data. All that is just so much persuasion, this speaker argued. Perhaps her most convincing riff was about Venn diagrams and how they appear to present clearly defined, even indisputable information, while actually being arbitrary circles drawn by self-interested PowerPoint users.
Read More...Political Innumeracy Compromises Voting Decisions
by Sam Holloway The bipartisan hold on the overwhelming majority of our nation’s elected offices may be linked to a previously unrecognized cognitive disorder, according to results of a recent university study. Sociology doctoral candidate Karl Müdjen of Gulf Isthmus University announced the findings at a press conference yesterday in front of the university’s crumbling […]
Read More...Climate Scientists Deny that Climate Change Denial Actually Exists
This essay originally appeared in the Duncastle Eagle, November 13, 2014: President Obama has just concluded negotiations with Chinese President Xi over an agreement between the world’s two largest economic powers (and largest polluters) to limit greenhouse gas emissions. But now he faces the real challenge: persuading members of the opposing party in Congress. The […]
Read More...Producers of Summer Blockbusters to Sell Ideology Placements
The deeply held political beliefs of the American people can’t be bought. But movie producers are betting that they can be sold.
The Stoneslide Corrective has acquired proposals prepared by major studios and independent producers to insert ideological content in movies slated to be released in the summer of 2016, just before the next US presidential election. The proposals were sent to the Super PACs of major candidates and both political parties asking for payments ranging from $50,000 to $15,000,000 in return for ideologically friendly zingers, characters, and even whole subplots. Analysts say this is merely a logical development of the increasing use of product placement in feature films in recent years. Call it ideology placement.
Read More...Nearly Half of Conversations Now Involve Facebook; Researchers See Further Rise Ahead
A new study out of Upland Downs University has found that nearly half of conversations in the real world start with some variant of, “You know what I just saw on Facebook?” The study used observers placed in coffee shops, train stations, and public parks to record thousands of unprompted exchanges between friends, family members, and complete strangers, and found that 47.2 percent of conversations that could be observed depended on material posted in a speaker’s Facebook feed. This rate was up from 26% two years ago and just 16% in 2010.
Read More...By All Means, Carry On
We at The Stoneslide Corrective recently came across this item on the wires and thought our readers would want to know about it: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Coming back from your latest open-carry demonstration, are you ever hit with that sinking feeling? You know, the feeling that you just haven’t done enough? Sure, you walked through […]
Read More...University Purchases City for Economics Experiments
People have long said Wye Sprite University’s great weakness is its location. The university is highly ranked across all its academic programs, especially in science and medicine, but the city of Duncastle that surrounds it has been economically depressed—with low graduation and high crime rates—since the meat packing and rivet industries moved out in the […]
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