Bad, MSNBC!
This is the image at the top of MSNBC.com right now:
I don't know what that whole "Are they right? Vote!" thing is about. But I don't think it's helping anyone's understanding of how science and "empirical" work.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
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i am more worried that they chose to frame the story in terms of "Claim". By using claim and not something like "present finds" MSNBC seems to be falling into the Intelligent Design / Creationist Language trap.
'Claim' (along with the poll) is working to discredit or question whether science can really do anything.
I would be intresting to go back and look at the way other scientific studies have been framed by MSNBC. Do they use words like 'claim' when talking about a new link between cancer and food? Or do they engage in a more fear-based tactic.
(in which i mean "Scientists claim to find link between skin cancer and walking" v. Scientists find link between skin cancer and walking".)
User feedback is big, baby. Not just regular big, neither. Super big. I didn't get to be Time Magazine's person of the year by not talking on the internet!
It all seems pretty interchangeably fucking useless and infuriating, though voting on whether scientists are right I think is a new one. You should have a user feedback part on the website you make, J. At the bottom of each page, put a space where visitors can draw a picture of how that product makes them feel.
thats brillent adam!
we need to go to california, get a lot of money from a venture capital firm, make the newest social networking site. We can call it drawlogr and people can make neat doodles and embed them into other peoples websites!
Than google will buy the company and we will be rich!
on yeah
drawlogr.com is avalable
we are going to be web 2.0 billionares
I think we should do this. Between the however many of us we have to have some asinine Web 2.0 idea that is completely needless and stupid but a bunch of ass-fuck dipshits will love. I think drawlogr is a good start.
If facebook and myspace can yield millions of dollars we have to be able to think of SOMETHING just as asinine and stupid.
Apparently facebook has a thing where you can draw pictures. I don't know if that competes directly with our stupid idea or not, though.
If I had a website, I'd have my content, and then down at the bottom of the page I'd have user comments that I'd write myself to LOOK like they were written by other users, but there wouldn't actually be any way for other people to write comments. And then when people would email me about how they could make an account to comment on my site, I'd ban their IP.
UPDATE
I just looked at Maddox's site to verify that he doesn't do this already, and I don't think he does.
Didn't Maddox get a book deal some time ago?
Yeah, he wrote a book (aka sold out). I'm impressed he's been able to go so long with the same ultra-manly persona without getting sick of it.
Oh wait, he updates his page like once every three months. He IS sick of it.
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