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The Flag

By Phil Mayes Posted on July 4, 2008 Posted in Politics, Society No Comments

Independence day is a great time to (re)start a blog on independent thinking, and what better subject than the flag. If you see an American flag outside a house, odds are the owners are Republican. In Britain, the ultra-right National …

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Does Christian Morality Benefit Society?

By Phil Mayes Posted on October 26, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

The average Christian in the US believes that society’s social problems are due to poor application of Christian morals. A paper published by the Journal of Religion and Society finds just the opposite; it measures homicide, youth suicide, STDs, teen …

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Selective reporting

By Phil Mayes Posted on March 22, 2005 Posted in Media No Comments

Intersting Salon article on the absence of media reports of public opinion polls on Terry Schiavo: When public opinion doesn’t matter “in the past week, an overwhelming majority — 87 percent — of Americans polled by ABC News and the …

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Microsoft makes good patent recommendations

By Phil Mayes Posted on March 11, 2005 Posted in Intellectual Property No Comments

I’m not usually a fan of Microsoft, but they presented some very sensible proposals in a lecture to the American Enterprise Institute.

When Socialism works

By Phil Mayes Posted on March 10, 2005 Posted in Health care No Comments

In Slate, The Triumph of Socialized Medicine comments on a Washington Monthly report that VA hospitals provided better quality of care than fee-for-service Medicare. Such news must be anathema to free-market ideologues, but the reasons given make sense; for instance, …

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How true is the news?

By Phil Mayes Posted on March 9, 2005 Posted in Computers, Media No Comments

Media everywhere ran the story about Harvard rejecting 119 aplicants because they tried to learn their admissions status early by “hacking into a Web site“, but the initial stories gave no details of the “hack”. Now we learn that it …

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Drug costs and medical research

By Phil Mayes Posted on March 5, 2005 Posted in Health care No Comments

The pharmaceutical industry claims that the high cost of drugs in America is necessary to support the costs of research, but a more likely cause of those costs is in the NYTimes article which says “[t]he drug industry has long …

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The Gannon affair

By Phil Mayes Posted on March 3, 2005 Posted in Media, Politics No Comments

MediaBistro is not finding it as easy to get a press pass as James Guckert, the amateur correspondent who covered White House press conferences for several years.

World falls to pieces; more news at 11

By Phil Mayes Posted on February 20, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

The latest report on global warming says that “[w]e were stunned by the similarities between the observations that have been recorded at sea worldwide and the models that climatologists made,” said Tim Barnett of the University of California’s Scripps Institution …

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Liberal bias in the press again?

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 20, 2005 Posted in Media No Comments

Slate says “Over the course of four hours of continuous inauguration coverage from 8 a.m. to noon (collectively, that’s 24 hours among the six outlets), the topic of the president’s (historically poor) approval ratings came up exactly four times, according …

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