Tag: fact-checking
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Redemption, a Play about Life (RR)
by Roving Reporter, ©2025 (Jan. 7, 2025) — “Ring on Her Finger, Time on Her Hands” (3:41) “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ the place to hear it here first. As you can see, we’re at Bishop Dunkin’s quaint church down on Hawthorn Street which is packed to the gills.…
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Today’s New York Times on Kennedy Relies on Faulty Opinion Blog Article Which Relied on Faulty Opinion Blog Article
by Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2023 (Sep. 13, 2023) — Today’s front-page New York Times article on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is rife with presumptions, errors and distortions of fact. It also bases its attempt at refutation of the science that Kennedy’s book with Brian Hooker, Vax vs. Unvax, on mere speculative opinion,…
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Trump to Social-Media Outlets: “Clean Up Your Act, NOW!”
OF CENSORSHIP AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES by Sharon Rondeau (May 27, 2020) — Shortly before 8:00 AM EDT Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump addressed himself to social-media platforms in general by tweeting, in two parts, “Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can…
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When Happens When “Non-Fiction” is Actually “Fiction?”
THE IMPORTANCE OF FACT-CHECKING by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 20, 2012) — Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, with one known exception, Obama’s life story as presented to the public stated that he was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, HI to two married parents. Recently, however, Obama stated that he was born to a “single…