Year: 2016

Economics of Liberty | Science & Skepticism

Does Fracking Increase Or Decrease Global Warming? The Report Environmentalists Don’t Want To Read
ByGuest Post May 11, 2016

By Andrew Follett Environmentalists like to claim that fracking accelerates global warming, but that’s likely not the case, according to numbers crunched in a report published Monday by the pro-industry group Energy In Depth (EID). Environmental claims that America’s hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, boom accelerated global warming due to methane emissions were just blown away, according to a report published…

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Abuse of Authority

Feds Spent $35 Million On Weird Research, Like Why Primates Love Metallica [VIDEO]
ByGuest Post May 11, 2016

Ethan Barton Federal agencies apparently spent $35 million on 20 questionable studies, a report has found, including experiments on what makes goldfish feel sexy and if being liberal is genetic. “We ought to reevaluate a system that spends federal funds looking for America’s next top model over a cure for cancer,” Sen. Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, said in…

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2016 Presidential Race | Headline News

Facebook’s News Curation Exec Is A Left-Leaning, Hillary Donor
ByGuest Post May 11, 2016

By Jonah Bennett Tom Stocky, the Facebook executive who runs Trending Topics at the social media company, which is currently facing allegations of censoring conservative news outlets, has donated $5,400 to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Public records at OpenSecrets.org show that Tom and his wife Avni Stocky each donated $2,700 to Clinton in October, 2015,…

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Headline News

Conservatives Strike Back: Crowder Takes Legal Action Against Facebook
ByGuest Post May 10, 2016May 10, 2016

A presently trending news story that you’re not going to see on your Facebook feed is that the site has been filtering which news stories you see! Gizmodo ran an investigative article yesterday disclosing their interviews with Facebook employees who were “news curators.” These curators are responsible for monitoring which items pop up on the social media…

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2016 Presidential Race | Headline News

Online Graphic Attempts to Trick Bernie Sanders Supporters Into Killing Themselves
ByGuest Post May 10, 2016May 10, 2016

by Lina Bryce Someone out there wants Bernie Sanders supporters to really feel the ‘burn,’ by creating a graphic that teaches them how to make their own “Bernie Sanders Glowsticks.” Except that these instructions are not for making glow-sticks; they’re instructions for how to make a deadly chlorine bomb. According to a Yahoo article reporting on…

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Headline News

The New Filipino President, Dubbed ‘Duterte Harry,’ Makes Trump’s Rhetoric Look Tame By Comparison
ByGuest Post May 10, 2016

By Blake Neff The Philippines has just completed a momentous presidential election that ended with it electing the country’s equivalent of Donald Trump. An unofficial count of the Monday night’s vote showed Rodrigo Duterte of the PDP–Laban party easily defeating his rivals, with Duterte finishing about 6 million votes ahead of his nearest rival. Barring some stunning…

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Free Style | Science & Skepticism

John Oliver Explains Why There Are So Many Scientific Studies With Crazy Conclusions
ByGuest Post May 10, 2016

We all seen these studies, we’ve run many of them at this site. But why are there so many scientific studies with such unconventional results. Will coffee kill you or does it cure cancer? Both? We don’t know, but John Oliver knows why we have to hear about these kind of studies all the time.

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2016 Presidential Race

Even After Major Tax Increases, Bernie’s Healthcare Plan Falls Short by $16 Trillion
ByGuest Post May 10, 2016May 10, 2016

By Juliegrace Brufke Despite major tax increases, 2016 Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders’ healthcare plan would fall roughly $16.6 trillion short over the course of a decade, according to studies released by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and the Urban Institute. While Sanders claimed all of his proposals would be fully paid for, his…

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Economics of Liberty

Proposed Medicare Rule Would Use Metric Banned During Obamacare Death-Panel Debate
ByGuest Post May 10, 2016May 10, 2016

By Juliegrace Brufke A Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ proposed rule would use a metric for rationing health care that was banned following the Obamacare death-panel debate. The controversial rule, which has a public comment period ending May 9, calls for changes to Medicare Part B’s drug payment model and would use reports incorporating data using quality-adjusted life year (QALYs), a…

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Headline News

Facebook MADE Black Lives Matter ‘Trend’ By Inserting It Into News Feeds
ByGuest Post May 9, 2016

By Rachel Stoltzfoos Facebook staff manually inserted the “Black Lives Matter” topic into its trending news feed in order to artificially boost the movement’s popularity and in turn boost the Facebook brand, according to a former employee who curated news for the site. “Facebook got a lot of pressure about not having a trending topic for…

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