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Heather Douglas, who until recently held the Waterloo Chair in Science and Society at the University of Waterloo and is now an associate professor in the department of philosophy at Michigan State University, says a public consensus around certain established facts is essential to scientific inquiry and debate. “Alternative facts are a way of undermining a basis of public discourse, or even of having a sensible conversation in the classroom,” she says. Dr. Douglas cites so-called flat-Earthers as a prime example of this wilful denial of established fact.
Academia, which strives for truth, is a natural enemy of misinformation and deception. Some academics have reacted by getting more involved in speaking out for legitimate research. Others, like Mr. Caulfield and Dr. Schwarcz, have become well-known debunkers of junk science and its proliferation, which itself has become a subject of academic study from a variety of disciplines and viewpoints.
Academics are also studying the related phenomenon of vaccine hesitancy – parents who choose not to vaccinate their children as a result of bogus anti-vaccination propaganda. Heather MacDougall, an associate professor of history at U of Waterloo, studies and writes about the history of vaccination in Canada. She says that vaccination opponents use various tactics, including incomplete information, to present their case.
“The scientific literature discusses both the benefits and limitations of vaccines. The opposition pulls out the paragraphs discussing limitations and uses those for their opposition,” she says. They also frequently cite a long-since debunked link between vaccines and autism.
In November, Dr. MacDougall will participate in a panel discussion entitled, “Science fact of fiction? How can science be heard in an age of misinformation?” at the Canadian Science Policy Conference in Ottawa.
The media also had a role to play in the propagation of junk science. Josh Greenberg, director of the school of journalism and communication at Carleton University, says that today’s flood of misinformation has its roots partly in the decline of traditional sources of information, such as newspapers.
“In their place, we’ve seen the emergence of things like blogs, op-ed columns, sponsored posts which haven’t been subject to the same kinds of editorial scrutiny as the Globe and Mail, for example.” As a result, he says, anyone with an axe to grind, a hidden agenda or something to sell now has access to a large audience.
And that audience is being subjected to many deceptive practices, says Bernie Garrett, an associate professor of nursing at the University of British Columbia and part of an interdisciplinary group looking at internet health scams. He and his research group have developed a series of criteria to determine the likelihood that something is a scam.
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In June, a diffident and self-deluded President Obama claimed that "the private sector is doing fine." Last week, the private sector responded: Speak for yourself, buster. Who needs an "October Surprise" when the business headlines are broadcasting the imminent layoff bomb in neon lights?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last Tuesday that employers issued 1,316 "mass layoff actions" (affecting 50 workers or more) in September; more than 122,000 workers were affected overall. USA Today financial reporter Matt Krantz wrote that "(m)uch of the recent layoff activity is connected to what's been the slowest period of earnings growth since the third quarter of 2009." Some necessary restructuring is underway in response to the stagnant European economy. But more and more U.S. businesses are putting the blame—bravely and squarely—right where it belongs: on the obstructionist policies and regulatory schemes of the blame-shifter-in-chief.
Case in point: Obamacare. The mandate will cost Dana Holding Corp., which employs some 24,500 workers, "approximately $24 million over the next six years in additional U.S. health care expenses." As Ohio Watchdog blogger Maggie Thurber reported, the firm's Toledo area corporate offices laid off seven white-collar employees last Friday; company insiders told her more were on the way. They are not alone.
On Tuesday, Consol Energy issued a federally mandated layoff disclosure announcing its "intent to idle its Miller Creek surface operations near Naugatuck, W.Va." The move will affect the company's Wiley Surface Mine, Wiley Creek Surface Mine, Minway Surface Mine, Minway Preparation Plant and Miller Creek Administration Group, all in Mingo County, W.Va. Despite state approval, cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and myriad other agencies, and a stellar safety record, Obama's EPA dragged its feet on the permit approval process. The impasse has forced layoffs of 145 Consol Energy employees that will hit at the end of the year. They are not alone.
In August, Robert E. Murray, founder and CEO of Murray Energy Corporation in Ohio, blasted the White House anti-coal agenda for the layoffs and closure of his company's mine. He told Obama water-carrying CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien that "the many regulations that (Obama) and his radical appointees and the U.S. EPA have put on the use of coal, there are dozens of them and collectively by his own energy administration, have closed 175 power plants." As O'Brien barked at her guest about purported environmental objections, Murray explained that "we cannot get permits for these mines. They are delaying the issuance of permits. If you can't get the permit, you can't have the mine.... I created those jobs, and I put the investment in that mine. And when it came time to lay the people off, I went up personally and talked to every one of them myself to lay them off. It's a human issue."
Stryker, a maker of artificial hips and knees based in Kalamazoo, Mich., is slashing 5 percent of its global workforce (an estimated 1,000 workers) this coming year to reduce costs related to Obamacare's taxes and mandates.
This July, Indiana's Cook Medical Inc. shelved plans to open five new plants because of the imminent medical device tax hit. They are not alone.
But they have remained silent while the White House corruptocrats bribed federal defense contractors into delaying federally mandated layoff disclosures before the election. In a memo now being investigated on Capitol Hill, Obama promised to cover the legal fees of Lockheed Martin and other defense contractors if they ignored legal requirements to inform workers in advance about so-called sequestration cuts to the military's budget scheduled to kick in next year.
Truth suppression is a time-honored Obama tactic, of course. Remember: The administration and its Democratic allies on Capitol Hill attempted to punish Deere, Caterpillar, Verizon and ATT in 2010 for disclosing how the costs of Obamacare taxes were hitting their bottom lines—even though they were simply following SEC disclosure requirements. The White House also tried to silence insurers who dared to inform their customers about how Obamacare was driving up premiums. Not this time.
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